Septimius Severus — Denarius, P M TR P XIIII COS III, Rome

Struck at Rome in AD 206. Severus was in his fourteenth year of tribunician power and had four left to live, most of them spent on the British campaign that killed him at York.

The obverse has shortened to SEVERVS PIVS AVG over a laureate head right, dropping the Pertinax name he no longer needed. P M TR P XIIII COS III P P dates the reverse. Genius stands left, naked, pouring from a patera over a garlanded and lighted altar with corn ears in his left hand.

Attribution: RIC IV Septimius Severus 201

Mint: Rome

Weight: 3.41 g

Diameter: 16 mm

Catalogued in the NumisLens cabinet — NL-NDFPZ-554QX

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