Coin of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna from Adraa (ADR0102)

Coin of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna from Adraa (ADR0102)

Civic bronze coin from Adraa (209/210 CE ?), depicting Septimius Severus and Julia Domna on the obverse

Spijkerman 1978:62-63, no.11

Bronze

ADR0102

Bronze

11.70g

28mm

Arabia

Provincial Era (106 CE)

Busts of Septimius Severus (wearing paludamentum and cuirass) and Julia Domna (draped), facing right, jugate, with the empress behind.

At right, a river god (the Yarmouk, labeled), draped around the legs, reclines against a rock while holding a reed in his right hand. A fish is visible swimming upstream in a river beside the rock. To the left stands a figure (Tyche?) wearing a long dress and perhaps holding a cornucopia.

[AYT K] Λ C CEΠ (?) CEOYHPONKAI-- (Autokrator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus and [Julia Domna])

AΔΡΑΝΗΝWN[IEP]OMVK HC ([of the people] of Adraaa... Yarmouk [River])

ET P[?Δ] (year 104[?])

Reverse legend uncertain; Severus rendered as CEVHPOC on other Severan issues from Adraa (Meshorer et al. 2013:145, no.8)

Spijkerman, A. 1978. The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press.

Meshorer, Y., G. Bijovsky, and W.Fischer-Bossert. 2013. Coins of the Holy Land: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection at the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum (Volume 1), New York: The American Numismatic Society.