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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4203214, member: 75937&quot;]Aequitas, the Roman counterpart to the Greek Dikaiosyne, was the personification of equity and fairness, particularly in commerce and business. She is similar to Justitia in her iconography, but Justitia was the personification of justice and fairness in legal matters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aequitas is almost always represented as a female figure, clothed in the <i>stola</i>, generally standing but occasionally seated, holding a pair of scales, or very rarely a patera or branch in the right hand, and in the left a cornucopiae or scepter. Some numismatists consider the scepter-like object to be a <i>pertica</i> (measuring rod), which makes sense as a counterpart to the scales as an object for measuring items in the course of commercial transactions.</p><p><br /></p><p>She appears on coins of numerous emperors and empresses from the first through third centuries. Show your Aequitas coins or anything you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077744[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.25 g, 18 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, late autumn AD 140 - December AD 144.</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, Laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right.</p><p>Rev: AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales in right hand and vertical rod in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 61, BMCRE <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210605&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=ANTONINUS+PIUS+173&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210605&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=ANTONINUS+PIUS+173&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">173</a>-177; RSC 14; Strack 82; RCV 4049; Hill UCR 331; Dinsdale 010460.</p><p>Notes: Sear dates the coin to AD 141 specifically.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077746[/ATTACH]</p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253</p><p>Roman AR Antoninianus; 4.10 g, 23.3 mm, 5 h</p><p>Antioch, AD 250-251</p><p>Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent, hair smooth and with a long plait carried up the back of the head (Sear type b; Temeryazev and Makarenko type 2)</p><p>Rev: AEQVITAS AVGG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae</p><p>Refs: RIC 64; RSC 3d; RCV 9491; CRE 540; Hunter p. xcix.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-aeqvitas-avg-antioch-antoninianus-jpg.931347/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.54 g, 20.7 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Antioch, second series, AD 251-252.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right; • below.</p><p>Rev: AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae; • in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 80; Cohen 6; RCV 9623; Hunter 52; ERIC II 30 var. (different officina marks).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077747[/ATTACH]</p><p>Tacitus, AD 275-276.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 3.85 g, 23.3 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Lugdunum, issue 1, AD 275.</p><p>Obv: IMP C CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 14; MER/RIC temp <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/3244" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/3244" rel="nofollow">3244</a>; Estiot 1126; Bastien 26b; Cohen 5; RCV --.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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