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ID:     776-8280
Type:     Roman Imperial
Issuer:     Severus II
Date Ruled:     AD 305-307
Metal:     Bronze
Denomination:     Follis
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 306-307
Weight:     8.8 g
Obverse Legend:     IMP C FL VAL SEVERVS P F AVG
Obverse Description:     Laureated bust right
Reverse Legend:     GENIO POPV_LI ROMANI
Reverse Description:     Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right hand holding patera from which liquor flows, left a cornucopiae
Exergue:     SMNA
Mint Mark:     SMNA
Mint:     Nicomedia
Primary Reference:     RIC unlisted
Reference2:     SRCV 3734v
Reference3:     VM 008v
Photograph Credit:     Anonymous
Notes:     No bronze coins for Severus II are recorded in in RIC for Nicomedia. This coin obviously belongs within Group III(i) which would require redating this group to 306-307.