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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 to the right, her hair in a bun behind the head.
Reverse: SAECVLI FELICITAS. Isis standing right, her left foot on a vessel, nursing infant Horus.
Reference: RIC 577 (Sept. Sev.); Sear 1849. 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.