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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: AURELIAN, AD 270-275. Antoninianus.
Obverse: IMP. C AVRELIANVS AVG., His radiated and cuirassed bust to the right.
Reverse: ORIENS AVG. Sol, half naked, standing left holding globe and raising his right hand. Two captives at his feet. P in exergue.
Reference: RIC 17; Van Meter 14. Grade: aU.
Comments: For more information, read the "Aurelian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Aurelian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.