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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4599536, member: 110350"]I know I asked about other empresses depicted with children, and I do have a Julia Maesa denarius with a Fecvnditas reverse showing one small child:</p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Maesa (grandmother of Elagabalus & Severus Alexander), AR Denarius, 218-222 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA MAESA AVG / Rev. Fecunditas standing left holding cornucopiae, a child at her feet, FECVNDI-TAS AVG. RIC IV-2 249, RSC III 8 (ill.), Sear RCV II 7749. 20.08 mm., 2.58 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139224[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But I doubt that the infant depicted is supposed to be a child (or even a grandchild) of Julia Maesa herself, who, at the time this coin was issued, was already the grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, neither of whom was an infant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4599536, member: 110350"]I know I asked about other empresses depicted with children, and I do have a Julia Maesa denarius with a Fecvnditas reverse showing one small child: Julia Maesa (grandmother of Elagabalus & Severus Alexander), AR Denarius, 218-222 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA MAESA AVG / Rev. Fecunditas standing left holding cornucopiae, a child at her feet, FECVNDI-TAS AVG. RIC IV-2 249, RSC III 8 (ill.), Sear RCV II 7749. 20.08 mm., 2.58 g. [ATTACH=full]1139224[/ATTACH] But I doubt that the infant depicted is supposed to be a child (or even a grandchild) of Julia Maesa herself, who, at the time this coin was issued, was already the grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, neither of whom was an infant.[/QUOTE]
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