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Clodius Albinus, AR Denarius, 194-195, Rome
D CLOD SEPT-ALBIN CAES
Bare head right
MINER-PA_CIF COS II
Minerva, helmeted, standing facing, head left, olive branch upward in right hand, left hand on shield set on ground, spear leaning against left arm ...
L'atelier de Lyon, fermé depuis 82, fut rouvert à l'occasion de l'arrivée de Clodius Albinus qui fit de la ville son quartier général. Le revers exalte l'Espérance du nouvel Auguste qui avait entraîné avec lui une partie des sénateurs.
Clodius Albinus
sestertius
Minor (not ugly) pitting or heavily porous surfaces. This example loses much detail to texture in the fields on the lower left half of the coin.
G
Patchy, rough surfaces ...
On p. 44, Clodius Albinus, No. 4: For obverse legend (b) D CL SEPT ALBIN CAES should read obverse legend (a) D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES
Volume IV, Part III ...
Clodius Albinus, as caesar, AD193-195, AR Denarius. Emperor bare head rt./PROVID AVG COS, Providence stands left, globe at feet, Sear 1729. Centered on slightly small flan, some letters crowded at edge, nice portrait, Very Fine/about Very Fine....
R1729 2542 Clodius Albinus Caesar: AR 18 Denarius
$145.00
Obv. D CLODIVS ALBINVS CAES Bare hd. r.
Rev. PROVID AVG COS Providentia stg. l.
3.32 g
Sear 1729; RIC 1a nearly VF
Scarce and historical.
One of these avengers of Pertinax, Septimius Severus, ultimately triumphed over his rivals, Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. But the state had to pay a heavy price for this bloody episode of civil war.
Returning to the West, he defeated Clodius Albinus, another usurper in Gaul, and returning eastward, attacked and expelled the Parthians from Mesopotamia. In 208 Severus went to Britain.
includng Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Macrinus, Diadumenian, and other rarities as aureii. A few denarii as included. All photographed in B&W plus very large enlargements in color. Usually two coins per two pages.
PLG
(Notes: Struck under the usurper Clodius Albinus, 195 - 196 A.D.)
Mediolanum (Milan, Italy)
c. 250 - c. 275 and
364 - 475 A.D.
It was made a colony probably by Julius Caesar (Col. Iulia Hippo Diarrhytus), and as a free town struck bronze coins in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, and perhaps also again (though this is doubtful) in that of Clodius Albinus. Inscr.
 See also: Septimius Severus, Coin, Ancient, Revers, Julia
  
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