410, Lot: 352. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.38 g, 12h). Laodicea mint. Struck AD 198-200. Laureate head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and
vindicta. RIC IV 507; RSC 306. Near EF, toned.
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”