New Sestertius of Manlia Scantilla - IVNO REGINA

Today I managed to close another gap in my Sestertius collection:



MANLIA SCANTILLA AVG - Bust right, wearing paludamentum
IVNO REGINA S C - Iuno, holding long sceptre, facing and turned left, showing patera, at feet peacock standing left, turning it´s head up
Sestertius, March 28th-end of May 193 AD
30.02 mm / 20.87gr / 12h
RIC 18a, BMCRE 32; Cohen 6, Sear 6083, Banti 2, Woodward ("The Coinage of Didius Julianus and his Family") obverse die 5, reverse die G
ex Monnaies d´Antan Auction 21 (20.05.2017) , lot 446

The short lived emperor Didius Julianus was a family man and in an unpreceded move struck no less that half of his coinage for his wife Manlia Scantilla and his daughter Didia Clara who both accepted the title of Augusta. Their coins (Aurei, Denarii, Sestertii and middle bronzes) featured a single reverse type for each empress: IVNO REGINA for Manlia Scantilla and HILAR(ITAS) TEMPOR(VM) for Didia Clara.

Please show your coins of Didius Julianus and his family!

 

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I can't show anything relevant, but I can appreciate your new entry : beautiful, thanks for sharing

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Wow, nice score. Good portrait left on it.

 

Geeezus! That's what I call a very rare coin, and it looks authentic! Congratulations. Didius Julianus reigned only two months, and that was 1828 years ago!
I have a coin of Manlia Scantilla, but it is probably a fake...

 

Beautiful coin! I have been looking for one (Pertinax too - a few years ago a bunch - maybe 5 to 7 - of Pertinax sestertii were put on sale over a short period of time, but I didn't act fact enough - that will never happen again!) for years but have never been able to find the right combination of affordability and condition -

My recollection is that she was very much against her husbands becoming emperor - he should have listened to her! It is interesting to see how much the portrait resembles the early issues of Julia Domna. The letters on the inscription, especially on the obverse, are really nice - Blake

 

Manlia Scantilla (wife of Didius Julianus - 193 AD.); AR denarius (17mm; 2.79 gm; 6h). Obv: Her draped bust, r. Rev: IVNO REGINA; Juno stg. l, peacock at feet. RSC III, 2.

 

My Domna coin is more scarce than it would be otherwise because it is easier to tool into a fake Manlia than most.

 

A real grail coin, @Julius Germanicus! Nice one!!!

I've got the wife and the daughter.


Manlia Scantilla, wife of Didius Julianus, Augusta, AD 193.
Roman Æ Sestertius; 28.8 mm, 22.62 g, 12 h.
Rome mint, AD 193.
Obv: MANLIA•SCAN-TILLA•AVG, draped bust right.
Rev: IVNO REGINA SC, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; to left, peacock at feet, standing left, head turned up.
Refs: RIC 18a; BMCRE 32-36; Cohen 6; RCV 6083; Woodward, Didius, dies 6/-; Banti 2.


Didia Clara, daughter of Didius Julianus and Manlia Scantilla, Augusta, AD 193.
Roman Æ Sestertius, 21.16 g, 30.5 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 193.
Obv: DIDIA CLARA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: HILARITAS SC, Hilaritas standing, head left, holding palm branch and cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 20; BMCRE 38-41; RCV 6087.
Notes: obverse die 3, reverse die H, Woodward, "The Coinage of Didius Julianus and His Family." Num Chron. 121:71, 1961. Reverse die-match to BMC 40 and BMC 41 in the British Museum collection.

 

Please show yours anyway and we can see if it matches anything in Woodward´s die study! (I´m not even 100% sure if I figured out the die numbers correctly on my coin)

I managed to grab one of those :-D

If Scantilla´s coins were not as rare as they are, she and not that copyist Domna would rightfully be known as the ancient it-girl who started the helmet hairstyle.

Julianus tried to appease his wife and daughter by hailing them Augustae, but according to the Historia Augusta they foresaw doom when they entered the palace.

Now that is a nice achievement! Your Manlia even has most of the reverse lettering left. Didia Clara shall be my next (and maybe final) collecting goal. Hoping to find a Sestertius that matches the rest of my collection color-wise (I did make a compromise with my Manlia´s partly green reverse...)