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Denarius - Pescennius Niger INVICTO IMPERAT
| Issuer | Syria, Usurpations of |
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| Year | 193-194 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Pescennius Niger facing right, depicted with a short beard in the customary portraiture style of the Severan period. The effigy shows the emperor wearing a laurel wreath, with paludamentum visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The surrounding legend reads IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IUST AVG, disposed clockwise around the periphery of the flan. The portrait, struck at the Antioch mint, exhibits the somewhat provincial die-cutting style characteristic of eastern Roman coinage during the civil wars of 193–194 AD. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven, as is typical of hastily produced usurper coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | INVICTO IMPERAT (Translation: To the undefeated supreme commander) |
| Edge | Plain |
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