SEVERVS NOBILIS C, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae. No fieldmark or mintmark. 26mm, 10.34 grams. London mint, minted c.305-306 CE. RIC VI London 63a; Sear 14630. 

Ex-Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection, with a note that the coins are from the The Falmouth Roman Coin Hoard (1865). The Falmouth hoard of approximately 600-1000 roman bronze coins of the 3rd and 4th Century AD was found on farmland near Falmouth while ploughing on the 18th April 1865. This small parcel from the hoard was formally in the possession of Lord Stewartby who studied the find and published some of them.

Severus II (d. 307 CE) was a Roman emperor who ruled briefly from 306 to 307 CE during the turbulent period of the Tetrarchy. Originally a trusted military officer and friend of Emperor Galerius, Severus was appointed Caesar in 305 CE and elevated to Augustus in the West after the death of Constantius Chlorus in 306. However, his authority was challenged almost immediately by Constantine the Great, who was declared emperor by his troops, and by Maxentius, the son of former emperor Maximian. Sent to suppress Maxentius in Rome, Severus was betrayed by his own men, captured, and later executed or forced to commit suicide in 307 CE. His brief and ill-fated reign highlights the instability of the late Roman imperial system.