RIC IV Severus Alexander 6c

Typological Description

• Date: AD 222
• Object Type: Coin
• Manufacture: Struck
• Denomination: Aureus
• Material: Gold

• Authority

  • Authority: Severus Alexander

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome
  • Region: Italy

• Obverse

  • Legend: IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG
  • Type: Bust of Severus Alexander, laureate, draped, right
  • Portrait: Severus Alexander

• Reverse

  • Legend: P M TR P COS P P
  • Type: Mars, helmeted, in military attire standing left, holding olive-branch in right hand and spear reversed in left hand
  • Deity: Mars