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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4862623, member: 19463"]My Pietas offering is stranger than most. While not a high grade coin, I find it fascinating. The AE dupondius is part of a series by Titus (79-81 AD) restoring types of the Julio-Claudian period. This one shows a bust of Pietas veiled. Titus was copying a coin issued under Tiberius in the name of his son and heir apparent Drusus Caesar.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174497[/ATTACH]</p><p>There has been much discussion and little consensus as to who is shown on this coin. Traditionally, it has been said to be Livia, wife of Augustus; others say it is Livilla, wife of Drusus; others stick with a personification of Pietas. The matter gets a bit more confusing when you consider there were two men named Drusus on the scene during the reign of Tiberius. The link below favors Livilla and credits her with poisoning her husband as a tool of Sejanus (a man all need to investigate and mourn the lack of coins in his name). (I stand corrected, there is a Provincial of Bilbilis with his face and name. Want list item!)</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107889" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107889" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107889</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am happy with saying my coin is just a personification of Pietas and suspect that, by the time of Titus, most had forgotten the name of Livilla whether or not she had been the model for Pietas on the coin of her husband whom she had poisoned. Most books older than about ten years will say this is Livia. You may believe the experts of your choosing. I would also like to have the other coins issued about 22-23 AD of this format showing Salus and Justitia (or the Julio-Claudian woman of your choice).</p><p><br /></p><p>In researching my coin, I noted that many of the dupondii of the original issue on the market are listed as smoothed or tooled. Some are horridly tooled. Beware.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4862623, member: 19463"]My Pietas offering is stranger than most. While not a high grade coin, I find it fascinating. The AE dupondius is part of a series by Titus (79-81 AD) restoring types of the Julio-Claudian period. This one shows a bust of Pietas veiled. Titus was copying a coin issued under Tiberius in the name of his son and heir apparent Drusus Caesar. [ATTACH=full]1174497[/ATTACH] There has been much discussion and little consensus as to who is shown on this coin. Traditionally, it has been said to be Livia, wife of Augustus; others say it is Livilla, wife of Drusus; others stick with a personification of Pietas. The matter gets a bit more confusing when you consider there were two men named Drusus on the scene during the reign of Tiberius. The link below favors Livilla and credits her with poisoning her husband as a tool of Sejanus (a man all need to investigate and mourn the lack of coins in his name). (I stand corrected, there is a Provincial of Bilbilis with his face and name. Want list item!) [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107889[/URL] I am happy with saying my coin is just a personification of Pietas and suspect that, by the time of Titus, most had forgotten the name of Livilla whether or not she had been the model for Pietas on the coin of her husband whom she had poisoned. Most books older than about ten years will say this is Livia. You may believe the experts of your choosing. I would also like to have the other coins issued about 22-23 AD of this format showing Salus and Justitia (or the Julio-Claudian woman of your choice). In researching my coin, I noted that many of the dupondii of the original issue on the market are listed as smoothed or tooled. Some are horridly tooled. Beware.[/QUOTE]
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