Coin

Septimius Severus
Roman Imperial
Roman Empire

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209

Bronze

Overall: 1 in. (26 mm)

Weight: 11.9 g

Overall: 1 1/8 in. (28 mm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853

27.1.29705

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1-500

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: Bearded, laureate male head right; struck partially off flan at bottom, and also badly corroded between 4:30 and 7:30. Inscribed clockwise, inward: [SE], and from 8:00-10:00: VERVS; from 2:00-5:00: PIVS AV[G]; frame from 8:30-2:00. Reverse: Helmeted (?) figure, draped to feet, seated right in high-backed chair; holding palladium in right hand, vertical object (identified as spear by both RIC and CREBM) in left. Much smaller figure (captive?) kneeling at right. Inscribed clockwise, inward, from 9:00-4:00: TR P XVII COS III [PP]; in exergue (covered here by corrosion): [S C]; frame from 8:30-2:00; axis up.

Course History

CLST 6, Introduction to Classical Archaeology, Roger Ulrich, Fall 2012

CLST 6, Introduction to Classical Archaeology, Roger Ulrich, Fall 2014

Provenance

Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.

Catalogue Raisonne

RIC 791 (scarce; pl. x.10), CREBM 171 (pl.56.10)

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