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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 left holding globe and his right hand raised, two captives at his feet. XXIT in exergue.
Reference: RIC 278; Sear 3261var. 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.