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Contributor: Mark Reid.
Issuer:
SEVERUS ALEXANDER
, AD 222-235. AR Denarius.
Obverse:
IMP. ALEXANDER PIVS AVG., Laureate head right.
Reverse:
IOVI PROPVGNATORI, Jupiter, naked but for cloak, standing front in fighting attitude, head right, holding thunderbolt raised.
Reference:
RIC 235. Grade: FDC.
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
.