Rome, Empress Julia Domna, Denarius, Cybele (Mother Goddess)

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Roman Empire
• Authority: Empress Julia Domna, wife of Emperor Septimius Severus
• Date: 196 - 211 CE
• Denomination: AR (silver) denarius
• Mint: Rome, Italy
• Size: 19mm, 3.16g
• Type Number: RIC IV Septimius Severus 564 (denarius)
• Obverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA - Bust of Julia Domna, hair waved and coiled at back, draped, right
• Reverse: MATER DEVM - Cybele, towered, draped, seated left on throne, holding branch in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand, resting left arm on drum set on left knee; to either side of throne, lion
• Notes: Cybele was a goddess who originated in Anatolia (modern day Turkey), who was known as the "great mother of the gods."

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