A ROMAN GOLD COIN PENDANT

A ROMAN GOLD COIN PENDANT
Circa Early 3rd Century A.D.
The coin a gold aureus minted in 202 A.D., the obverse bearing a portrait bust of Septimius Severus, emperor from 193-211, shown with a wreath of laurel in his wavy hair, wearing a mantle over a cuirass, inscribed SEVER P AVG P M TR P X COS III, the reverse with a facing draped portrait bust of his wife Julia Domna, framed by inward turned draped busts of their sons Caracalla, a laurel wreath in his hair, and Geta, inscribed FELICITAS SAECVLI; mounted in antiquity as a pendant in a plain gold bezel, the obverse with an openwork rosette frame, a ribbed suspension loop above
1¼ in. (3.2 cm) long