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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: AURELIAN, AD 270-275. Antoninianus.
Obverse: (IMP.) AVRELIANVS AVG. His radiated and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: ORIENS AVG, Sol standing to the right between two captives, his head to the left holding globe, his right hand raised. In exergue: E XXI A.
Reference: RIC 63; Sear 3261. Grade: chVF.
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.