Septimius Severus, AE Sestertius, 30mm, 18.49 gr. 195 AD.

L dot SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP V, laureate head right.
VIRTVTI AVG, S C, emperor in military dress, standing left,
holding palm- and wreath-bearing Victory on globe in right
hand and spear in left; behind him Roma, helmeted, standing 
left, crowning emperor and holding parazonium. 

RIC 693. Cohen 773. BMC 562. Hill 150.

with permission of Dr. Hubert Lanz, November 2000.