IVNONI REDINE


Reference : AYC #5 ov Sev (2), RIC 2
Weight: 2.60 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Extremely rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

SVLP DRYANTILLA AVG

Bust of Dryantilla to the right, draped, diademed and set on crescent.

IVNONI REDINE

Juno standing left, holding patera with the right hand and a scepter with the left hand.

Photo of a coin sold the 13/03/2017 by Fritz Rudolf Kuenker GmbH & Co KG, OsnaBrück, Auction 288, lot 833 (photo copyright owner: Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg), link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3687381, link to their website: https://www.kuenker.de/en.

Regarding the legends, I recognize an obverse die and therefore deduce that the obverse legend is SVLP DRYANTILLA AVG. On the reverse, the location of REDINE seems to indicate that there is sufficient space to write IVNONI and not IVNO.

ov Sev'' in the reference: AYC #5 ov Sev, means that this coin is overstruck on a denarius of  Septimius Severus. ''ov'' for overstruck. I considered that this coin was overstruck on a denarius of Septimius Severus because on the reverse we see a rest of a laureate portraiture, indicating a denarius. We also see the legend SEVERVS and we recognize the hair of this emperor. It seems that the space after SEVERVS is quite smooth, indicating that the full legend is probably: SEVERVS - PIVS AVG. On the reverse I think of the type LIBERALITAS AVG VI. The blank is chipped under the portraiture of Septimius Severus and this same part is found on the reverse before the letter N. Again at this place, I see what looks like a line with part of the feet and legs. So we would have a die orientation indicating that the reverse character should probably start there. In addition, we read ..AS AVG VI, placed on the right of the character, at the end of the legend. Everything matches for a reverse LIBERALITAS AVG VI. Here is a photo showing what the original coin looked like (RIC 278a Septimius Severus):

Photo of a coin sold the 12/11/2018 by Auktionhaus H.D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 107, lot 348, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5443686, link to their website: http://www.hdrauch.com/.