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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, AD 193-211. AR Denarius.
Obverse: L. SEPT. SEV. PERT. AVG. IMP. X. His laureated head right.
Reverse: MARTI VICTORI, Mars standing facing right, holding spear in his right hand, leaning on shield set on helmet.
Reference: RIC 114; Sear 1764. Grade: aU.
Comments: For more information, read the "Septimius Severus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Septimius Severus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.