Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Tetricus I, AE Antoninianus, Trier, 274 AD, Cunetio hoard 2618, Normanby hoard 1485. Harlow find

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Tetricus I
AE Antoninianus

IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust facing to the right.
VIRTVS AVGG, Virtus standing to the left, her right breast exposed, resting her right hand upon a shield and holding an inverted spear with her left hand.

3.62 grams
19 x 18 x 1.9 mm
45 degrees

Trier, 273 - 274 AD
Cunetio hoard 2618, Normanby hoard 1485
RIC 148 lists the deity on the reverse as male. The Normanby type has the deity as Roma. Virtus had often, historically, been depicted as female.
From a metal detecting find near Harlow, Essex, in 2003.

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