I think this Julia Domna is beatiful to me.

Just picked this one up of Julia Domna.
It is an AS with the Vesta reverse.

 

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Yeah, it is nice.

 

What a lovely portrait, @bcuda ! Anyone would be proud to add that to their collection. Here's my less attractive example.


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman AE as or dupondius, 10.30 g, 25.3 mm, 11 h.
Rome, AD 211-217.
Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bust of Julia Domna, draped and diademed, right.
Rev: VESTA S C, Vesta seated left, holding simpulum in right hand and transverse sceptre in left hand.
Refs: RIC 606; BMCRE 231; RCV 7136; Hill 1455.

 

Nice coin, @bcuda

I have it as a Denarius

IULIA DOMNA


RI Julia Domna 193-195 CE AR Den Vesta Palladium
Ex: @dougsmit via @John Anthony

I also have an As with Hilaritas


RI Julia Domna 196-211 CE AE As Hilaritas cornuc RIC IVa 877
Ex: @dougsmit via @John Anthony

 

I was just showing my wife some Julia denarii with the Venus standing with her booty hanging out on the reverse. She said she liked the Venus reverse but that Julia wasn't much of a looker lol.

Yours are better looking than mine though:


Though I do like this one.

 

Great hairstyle for Julia , congrats

also available in silver:

 

Can't say I'm into the hairstyle, but she's kinda...hot otherwise

 

Beauty bcuda! I still need this Empress. She was married to a brutish husband/ and had a son (Caracalla) that inherited Dads bad traits.

 

..wow congrats..i was bidding on it too...it is a beauty and i still want a coin with her hair as such.....but for now, what i have will have to suffice... lulia Domna denarius, Pietas Publica reverse, 19mm, 3.16gms

 

Fun new portrait!
Her having come into that helmet head hairdo late in life does make one wonder if it may have been a wig.
Anyway, love Julia D:

 

Jumping at any chance to contribute something, now I have to post a Julia Domna that I no longer own (and I know I've already posted this coin plenty of times). I thought it was already established that this is a wig, and not a hairstyle, but I may be wrong about that. In any case, I think this portrait of her is stunning.

 

The late hairstyle Julias come from the reign of Caracalla and use the last legend IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG. My favorite of my three sestertii has a very strange eye (almost archaic?). The Vesta reverse was lost to doublestriking.

no diadem / VOTA PVBLICA
IVNO
dupondius /SAECVLI FELICITAS

 

Nice coins all. Julia was certainly a handsome lady, though my favorite was the beautiful Plautilla - her daughter in law who was eventually killed by her son. I think Julia was indeed wearing a wig - an easy solution to the problem of lice in the ancient world. Another pretty lady was certainly Julia Mamaea Alex's mom.

 

Lovely coins shown....This is my favourite Denarius of an empress...

Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AR Denarius (3,84g). Rome mint.
Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 200-207.
Obverse.JVLIA AVGVSTA Draped bust right
Reverse.PIETAS AVGG Pietas standing left, holding acerrum (incence box) and dropping incense onto lighted and garlanded altar to left.
RIC IV 572 (Septimius); RSC 150.

 

It was probably her natural hair. I did a write-up about her various hairstyles a few years ago.

 

And had a son murdered in her arms, by her other son. I do not think life treated her well. And, by the way, that is the nicest image of Julia I have ever seen. I hope she saw it.

 

I wonder which portrait is true to life? In the first, she is an attractive woman. In the second, her nose looks like Jimmy Durante's

 

Nice coin @bcuda, with a sharp portrait! Here are mine. These two coins are the only coins I have of an empress, so far.

 

Maybe that one was minted in the City of Rome where a prominent proboscis would have been considered an asset to one's appearance in the same way that Jimmy saw it as such.