P M TR P COS


Reference : AYC #7 var, RIC 2 note
Weight: 2.79 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Scarce
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG

Laureate head with bare bust of Didius Julianus to the right.

P M TR – P COS

Fortuna standing on the left, holding a cornucopia with his left hand and a rudder resting on a globe with his right hand.

Photo of a coin sold the 04/06/2019 by Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 108, lot 241, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6036152, link to their website: https://www.hdrauch.com/site/de/.

Variant without globe below the rudder on the reverse, reported by RIC 4A, n°2 note: ''Denarius with variant of reverse, no globe, Norman Sale, 1910, lot 316''. The sale is: ''Etienne Bourgey, 14 and 15 april 1910, Collection Jules norman, Monnaies grecques, romaines, gauloises françaises.''. Here is the coin from this sale:

Photo from the catalog quoted above, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9778081c/f81.item#.

I not that this coin share the same reverse die as the coin sold by AutkionHaus illustrated here.