Augusta, A.D 193-217
Provincial Silver Denarius
Laodicea ad Mare (or Antiochia ad Orontem?) mint, A.D. 196-202
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA
Rev: CONCORDIA - Concordia, seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae
RIC (Septimius Severus) 637
18mm, 3.7g.
Julia Domna came from a family of Syrian priests of the Sun god, Elagabal (El-Gabal). She was the wife of Septimus Severus and the mother of Caracalla and Geta. Crafty and scheming, but also well educated and erudite, she struggled to maintain harmony between her two bickering sons. She was ultimately unsuccessful and, tragically, witnessed the murder of her younger son, Geta, by Caracalla, the older.
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