2021-07-21 Wed

A gold aureus struck in A.D. 202 in Rome is a remarkable coin with four portraits issued during the reign of Septimius Severus.

Septimus Severus was a Roman Emperor that ruled the Roman during the Imperial period from 193 CE to 211 CE. He was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman provinces of Africa. Septimius Severus is considered the founder of the Severan Dynasty; he was the last dynasty before the crises of the third century.

The emperors have used a variety of different titles throughout history. The coinage under the Roman emperor saw a variety of combinations of portraits of the Imperial family, explaining, “Among the rarest of this series is this beautiful aureus, which combines a forceful obverse portrait of Severus with a facing bust of his wife Julia Domna, between confronting busts of their two sons Caracalla and Geta.

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