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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8274400, member: 87809&quot;]Livia appears on official coinage of Bithynia (M. Granius Marcellus, FITA, p. 145).</p><p>The seated female figure is described in FITA, p. 145, as Livia; but, whether this is true or not, she does not provide a precedent for the priestess type since she carries a double cornucopia; nor does she appear to be veiled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ 32, Uncertain mint in Bithynia (Apameia Myrlea?) 14 AD </p><p>31 x 32 mm, 18.860 g</p><p>RPC 2097; Recueil General 38; FITA 145-6; McClean 3028; Stumpf 178-9 G. Stumpf, &quot;Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der Römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien&quot; (1991) p. 272, No. 1428</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: IMP•CAESAR•AVGVSTVS• PONTIF•MA(X TR P) Jugate busts of Augustus and Livia to l.</p><p>Rev.: M GRANIVS•MARCELLVS•PROCOS Livia seated to r. holding double cornucopiae.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460754[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460755[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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