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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7899443, member: 75937&quot;]There are a lot of women on Roman coins. Some of them, we know next to nothing about, such as Magnia Urbica ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364135[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not exactly FDC, I know, but it&#039;s from a group lot that worked out to be $8.83 a coin, including shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>... but others we know very much about, particularly the two Faustinas. Faustina coins are affordable and (I think) interesting and educational. Things your daughter could learn from a coin of Faustina the elder would be about her establishment of a charity called Puellae Faustinianae (&quot;Faustina&#039;s girls&quot;) to assist orphaned Roman girls, or about any of the goddesses that appear on her coins, particularly Ceres. Faustina was very involved with the Eleusian Mysteries, an interesting thing to learn about. Faustina the Younger was known for her fertility, of course, and many coins depict her growing family, but she also accompanied her husband on military campaigns, earning her the title of &quot;Mother of the Camps.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Other interesting women on Roman coins are Sabina, Lucilla, Julia Domna and her sister Julia Maesa, Aelia Flacilla and especially her daughter Aelia Eudoxia, and many others. </p><p><br /></p><p>And as long as we&#039;re talking about bargains, here are some of the other ones that were in that group lot that worked out to $8.83 a coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tacitus-annona-avgvsti-antoninianus-jpg.645366/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Tacitus, AD 275-276.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 3.57 g, 22.1 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Ticinum, AD 275-276, issue 2.</p><p>Obv: IMP C CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVGVSTI, Annona standing left, holding ears of corn over modius and cornucopiae; T (third officina) in exergue.</p><p>Refs: MER/RIC temp #3647; RIC 123; Cohen --; Estiot 2149.56; RCV 11767; La Venera hoard 1673.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/victorinus-fides-militvm-antoninianus-jpg.1035200/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Victorinus, AD 269-271.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 2.63 g, 20.1 mm. </p><p>Cologne (though CNG attributes this coin to Treveri), AD 269/70. </p><p>Obv: IMP C PIAV VICTORINVS PF AVG, radiate, draped bust, r. </p><p>Rev: FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing l., holding two standards. </p><p>RIC-109; Cohen-36; AGK-5b; De Witte pl. XXVI, 22; Sear-unlisted.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tacitus-victoria-gotthi-antoninianus-jpg.1261600/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Tacitus, AD 275-276.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 3.57 gm, 21.1 mm.</p><p>Ticinum, AD 276.</p><p>Obv: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: VICTORIA GOTTHI, Victoria standing left, holding wreath and palm; P in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 172; Cohen 158; Sear 11821; Hunter 59; CBN 1676.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/claudius-ii-restitvtor-orbis-antoninianus-jpg.829093/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Claudius II, AD 268-270.</p><p>Roman silvered billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 19.1 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Siscia, issue 1, end AD 268.</p><p>Obv: IMP CLAVDIVS CAES AVG, Bust right, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum, seen from rear.</p><p>Rev: RESTITVTOR ORBIS, emperor in military dress standing l., holding patera over small altar in r. hand and spear pointing down in l. hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 189; MER/RIC temp no. 562; Cohen 247; Markl, <i>Num Zeitschr</i> v. 16, p. 427; Alfoldi 1936, 1.2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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