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Contributor: David Sorenson.
Issuer: SEVERUS ALEXANDER, AD 222-235. AR Denarius (3.22 gm).
Obverse: IMP. SEV. ALEXAND. AVG., Laureate draped bust right.
Reverse: P. M. TR. VIIII COS. III. P. P., Alexander standing right and holding spear and orb.
Reference: RIC 105.
Comments: For more information, read the "Alexander Severus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Severus Alexander see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.