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Contributor: Plamen Arsoff.
Issuer: BALBINUS, AD 238. Billon Denarius. (2.64g).
Obverse: IMP. C. D. CAEL. BALBINVS AVG., his laureate, draped and cuirassed bust facing right.
Reverse: IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding a thunderbolt and a sceptre.
Reference: RIC 2. Grade: darkly toned VF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Balbinus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Balbinus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.