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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: JULIA DOMNA, 2nd wife of Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA, Her draped bust right.
Reverse: MATER DEVM, Cybele seated to the left holding cornucopia. Her throne is flanked by two lions.
Reference: RIC 564 (Sept. Sev.); Sear 1844. Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Septimius Severus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Julia Domna see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.