Ancients: New Faustina Sr Denarius (Juno Or Aeternitas?)

Faustina Senior Denarius. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right / AETERNITAS, Juno or Aeternitas standing left, hand raised, holding scepter


ERIC II and RIC recognizes the reverse figure as Juno. I've seen a few other references that recognize the reverse as Aeternitas; some even remain indifferent and classify the reverse as Juno or Aeternitas. I spent a whole whopping 15 minutes researching both Aeternitas and Juno. Aeternitas is typically seen as an abstract Goddess of the state of Rome, whereas Juno is seeing as the Roman equivalent to Hera and the watcher of women.

My question is, why would engravers place the name of a separate goddess on the back of the coin, yet depict the embodiment of another? Regardless of the answer, I'm happy with my new denarius and hope to learn a little bit more.

 

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Nice coin, reverse especially. As for who the god is, I would leave it to how you have it described too.

 

Very nice!

 

great coin, everything's on the flan, nice details, but still has a "rugged" ancient look. nice!

 

Gorgeous coin IT. Great detail (ugly woman).

 

Indeed, but so was Severina. My coin looks like she has a mustache!

 

oh yikes!!!

 

iamtiberius => unlike chrsmat's sucker-dude photo, your new pick-up has fantastic eye-appeal (congrats => recently, you've been scoring some great coins)

 

Nice coin IamT.
Have you considered the possibility this may be a barbaric issue? I don't for sure know that barbaric issues of Faustina denarii exist, but the portrait is, imho, unlike Rome issues, and this may also account for the anomaly you describe for the reverse.

 

I was looking for an example that wasn't a Rome mint, but i couldn't find one. Here is a similar example from coinarchives describing the mint as "Rome."
http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotvi...&Lot=394&Val=3abb0188675333715e39dbf93a3dc976