Added this to my collection... AR Denarius ND Rome Mint 3.02g./ 21mm. struck circa 236-38AD Diva Paulina obv. Draped bust DIVA PAVLINA rev. Empress with Scepter riding on a Peacock CONSECRATIO
WOW, nice Denarius of Paulina! I understand they can be pretty tough to get. I have a Sestertius version: RI Paulina wife of Maximinus I D before CE 235 AE sestertius 30.77mm 19.66g 2nd emiss of Maximinus I CE 236 Peacock RIC IV 3 RARE
The Paulina pieces are indeed rare, so congrats on getting one. All are posthumous and both her silver coins are denarii, both featuring a peacock. Here is the other one from my collection:
Beautiful coin My daughter is named Pauline, after Paulina of course. Fortunately she is much, much more pretty than the Empress seems to have been Paulina, Denarius Rome mint AD 236 DIVA PAULINA, Veiled and draped bust of Paulina right CONSECRATIO, Paulina on peacock flying 3.3 gr Ref : RCV #8400, Cohen #2 Q
That's because the mint was not well acquainted with this royal family who never visited Rome. They were guessing about his visage from the beginning, and changed it over time. It does not seem likely that they knew her any better, nor their son Maximus. All three ended up looking very similar to one another.
Because all of her coins are "DIVA" she must have been dead by the time Maximinus became emperor. That made it harder for die engravers to know what she actually looked like.
I do not believe that was the case. If tthey didnt know how she looked, they would have made her look more pretty. which wife has the looks of her husband, generally? Posthumus or not there must have been some drawings of Paulina as a model for coin makers.
Well, i posted that "most" do, but that really isn't true, "several" would be more like it. I was educated on that this year when started getting ladies of the empire coins. Severina's portrait coins compared to her emperor husband Aurelius...
