Denarius - Pescennius Niger SALVTI AVGVS; Salus

Features

Issuer Usurpations of Syria (Roman Imperial usurpations)
Ruling authority Pescennius Niger (193-194)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 193-194
Value Denarius (1)
Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
Composition Silver
Weight 2.6 g
Diameter 19 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
271335
References RIC IV.1# 76,
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham; 1936. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 4.1. Pertinax – Geta and Caracalla (AD 193–217). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
OCRE# ric.4.pn.76
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Head of Pescennius Niger, laureate, right.

Lettering: IMP CAES PESC NIGER IVST AVG

Translation:
Imperator Caesar Caius Pescennius Niger. Iustitia Augusti.
Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Gaius Pescennius Niger. Justice of the emperor (Augustus).

Reverse

Salus, draped, standing right at altar, feeding from patera in right hand snake held in her arms.

Lettering: SALVTI AVGVS

Translation:
Saluti Augusti.
To the health of the emperor (Augustus).

Mint

Antioch on the Orontes, Syria, modern-day Antakya, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (193-194) 

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