RECTOR ORBIS


Reference : AYC #8 var, RIC -
Weight: 2.62 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Very rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG

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

RECTOR OPBIS

The emperor standing on the left, holding a globe with the right hand and a scroll with the left hand.

One coin sold the 05/01/2010 by Freeman & Sear, Manhattan Sale I, lot 332, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=720725.

Variant that I discovered, with RECTOR OPBIS on the reverse. The letter seems to be a P and not an R. No trace of the leg of a letter R, only a tiny ball under the loop of the letter P, so a natural irregularity.