Roman Imperial coin – HCR85633

Obverse

Inscription:

FL VAL SEVERVS NOB C

Design:

Head of Severus II, laureate, right

Reverse

Inscription:

GENIO POPV LI ROMANI

Design:

Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand

Information

Period

Roman Imperial

Person

Severus II

Mint

Siscia

Denomination

Quarter Nummus

Material

bronze

Technique

struck

Dating

AD 305 – 306

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

2.65

Axis

Diameter (mm)

18.3

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition collection reference

L. A. Lawrence Collection

Acquisition date

19/1/1951

Source

Glendining, Lawrence sale II 830; Hess (Lucerne) 1955, April 1934

Source of funds

Evans Fund Capital

Acquisition credit

Purchased, 1951.

Acquisition note

Glendining, Lawrence sale II 830;

Mint-mark (reverse)

-/-//SIS

Reference

RIC VI : 170a var.

Note:

Reverse inscription breaks GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, not GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI

Reference

Omissi, A., and Lindholmer, M. - Mapping the Fall : AD 305

Note:

Contra RIC VI, pp.436, 447-448, the province of Pannonia Superior, and therefore mint of Sisica, fell first under the administrative jurisdiction of Diocletian as Augustus of the east, not Maximian as Augustus of the west, so then fell to Galerius as the new Augustus of the east in AD305. In further support of this re-assignment see T. Barnes, The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (London, 1982), p.197.

Reference

OCRE : http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.sis.170a

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, mspencer-brown, mmaliczowski