IMP CAES C PESCEN – NIGER IVST  AVG

Bust of Pescennius Niger laureate.

VENE - RI – V - ICTR

Venus naked, standing right, leaning on column and holding apple wtih right hand and palm with left.

Type imitated: obverse copied from an indeterminate aureus, bearing the classical legend for this emperor. Concerning the mint, for me, it is likely that the obverse imitated comes from the mint of Caesarea in Cappadocia. For the reverse RIC 536 for Julia Domna, as Numismatica Ars Calssica tells us: "The reverse, inscribed VENERI VICTR, shows Venus, nude to below her waist, as seen from behind, leaning on a column and holding a palm branch and an apple. This presumably was copied from an aureus or a denarius of Julia Domna, which was strictly contemporary with the coin of Pescennius Niger that we finf on the obverse".

Coin cold by Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 77, lot 158, 26.05.2014. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995092, link to their website: http://www.arsclassicacoins.com/.