INVICTA VIRTVS

Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. INVICTA VIRTVS -The Emperor on horseback trampling on a captive. This legend, of which the accompanying type renders the meaning sufficiently clear, as a compliment to Imperial valour, appears for the first time on a silver coin of Sept. Severus. There is a similar reverse on one of Caracalla's medals. -The warlike virtus may be said in the case of Severus to have been unconquered, if what Spartianus asserts to be true, that he was victorious in every action with the enemy, and no less distinguished for science in the military art than for courage in the field. -(Vaillant)

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INVICTA VIRTVS

Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. INVICTA VIRTVS -The Emperor on horseback trampling on a captive. This legend, of which the accompanying type renders the meaning sufficiently clear, as a compliment to Imperial valour, appears for the first time on a silver coin of Septimius Severus. There is a similar reverse on one of Caracalla's medals. -The warlike virtus may be said in the case of |Severus| to have been unconquered, if what Spartianus asserts to be true, that he was victorious in every action with the enemy, and no less distinguished for science in the military art than for courage in the field. -(Vaillant)

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