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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1056158, member: 19463&quot;]Julia Maesa was Domna&#039;s sister and Mamaea&#039;s mother. I have always wondered why Hollywood has not picked up her life story for a major motion picture. What she saw and influenced was huge. This Domna with the PIA FELIX legend is from the later period when she was the mother of Caracalla after the death of he husband Septimius Severus. She issued coins for 25 years so there is a wide variety available. Oddly enough the youngest looking portraits are not from the start of the reign. Perhaps this can be attributed to the die cutters not being familiar with her appearance at the beginning and possibly the young and beautiful portraits were simply to flatter the empress. Maesa did not come to power until she was a grandmother. The coin here is rather young looking for her. There is another Julia that belongs in the set. Another of Maesa&#039;s daughter&#039;s was Julia Soaemias whose son was the extremely strange Elagabalus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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