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Contributor: David Sorenson.
Issuer: SEVERUS II, AD 305-307. AE Follis (10.28 gm).
Obverse: IMP C FLA VAL SEVERVS P F AVG, his laureate bust facing right.
Reverse: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked save for chlamys over left shoulder, pouring wine from patera in right hand, cornucopiae in left. HTA in exergue.
Reference: RIC VI 30 Heraclea mint.
Comments: For more information, read the "Severus II" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Severus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. (NOTE: Many of the search results will not be for this emperor.)