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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: AURELIAN, AD 270-275. Antoninianus.
Obverse: IMP. C. AVRELIANVS AVG. His radiated and cuirassed head to the right.
Reverse: SOLI INVICTO, Sol standing right, naked, a captive at his feet, holding globe and raising his right hand. VI in exergue.
Reference: RIC 257 var (Sol facing right, not left).
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.