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Contributor: T. E. Bray.
Issuer: AURELIAN, AD 270-275. Antoninianus.
Obverse: IMP. AVRELIANVS AVG., His radiated and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: ORIENS AVG.; Sol advancing rt, holding laurel branch and bow, and treading down enemy. I in left field, XXIR in exergue.
Reference: RIC 64; Sear 3262var. Grade: VF.
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.