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A coin of the emperor Septimius Severus showing Liber and a panther Coin Type: Silver denarius of Septimius Severus, 193 CE - 211 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 194 CE.
Size and Weight: 19 mm, 2.95g
Obverse: Laureate head right.
L SEP SEV PERT AVG IMP III
Reverse: Liber, wearing wreath, naked except for cloak over left arm, standing facing, head left, with right hand emptying kantharos for little panther, which stands left before him, one paw raised, and turns back its head right to catch the drops; and holding a thyrsus vertical in left hand.
LIBERO PATRI
Provenance: silenoscoins (eBay), January 2007.
Ref: RCV (2002) 6307; RIC IV 32; BMCRE V p.31, 64
BW Ref: 052 032 103
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