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Nummus - Severus II SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 306 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC VI#123a , OCRE#ric.6.rom.123a |
| Obverse description | Radiate and cuirassed bust of Severus II as Caesar facing right, depicted with military dress including detailed scale armour. The portrait presents the emperor in the Tetrarchic style, with a somewhat schematic rendering characteristic of the period. The circumferential Latin legend reads SEVERVS NOB CAES, identifying him as noble Caesar. The flan is slightly irregular, typical of late Tetrarchic workshop production at Rome. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Severus II held the rank of Caesar under Constantius I when this piece was struck at Rome in 306 — the same year Constantius died at Eboracum and Constantine was acclaimed Augustus by his troops, an event that immediately destabilized the tetrarchic succession Diocletian had engineered. The SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN reverse type was a deliberate ideological statement about the sanctity of the imperial mints as an institution shared collectively by Augusti and Caesars alike, at precisely the moment that collective fiction was beginning to collapse.
Severus would be dead within two years, captured by Maxentius and executed — or compelled to suicide — in 307.