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Replica WRL - Denarius - The Goddess Sulis Minerva
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Diameter | 17.7 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Nobilitas depicted as a draped female figure standing to the right, holding a vertical sceptre in her raised right hand and a small statuette of Minerva in her extended left hand. The figure is rendered in the classical Roman allegorical tradition, with flowing drapery falling to her feet. The surrounding and exergual legend records Commodus's full titulature, including his tribunician and consular powers. A beaded border frames the design, partially irregular owing to the cast production method of this replica. |
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Sulis was a Celtic healing deity venerated at the thermal springs in what is now Bath; the Romans identified her with Minerva and built the sacred complex at Aquae Sulis around 60–70 AD, one of the most elaborately maintained cult sites in Roman Britain. This piece is a modern replica, not an ancient coin — no denarius bearing this specific iconographic program was struck by the Roman mint.