Description: Severus II (Caesar: 305 - 306 AD). AE Quarter Follis, Siscia mint 305-306 AD. FL VAL SEVERVS NOB C; laureate head right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, with chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopia; SIS in ex.

Diameter: AE19 mm

Weight: 2,58 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: RIC 170a

Commentary: scarce; olive-green patina with minute traces of silvering, minor roughness

History: As a Caesar Severus was a junior colleague of Constantius I and after his death he was declared by Galerius the augustus of the West.

Article Number: 009-05-08-45200