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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4487008, member: 75937&quot;]Beautiful denarius, [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>I have long been puzzled by this one, because Bonus Eventus is a male deity and the figure on this coin&#039;s reverse is apparently female, dressed in a <i>stola</i> and <i>zona</i> and wearing a female hairstyle, but the legend reads BONI EVENTVS.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113652[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Julia Domna, AD 193-211.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman AR Denarius, 2.52 g, 16.2 mm, 1 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Uncertain eastern mint (Cappadocia?) formerly attributed to Emesa, AD 193-196.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: BONI EVENTVS, Fides (?) standing left, holding basket of fruit and corn ears.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RIC 616; BMC --; Cohen 10; RCV --; CRE 328.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Her attributes, though, are those of Fides: a basket of fruits and corn ears.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113669[/ATTACH]<font size="3">Hadrian, RIC 241a. Naumann, Auction 12, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1840774" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1840774" rel="nofollow">lot 512</a>, 2 February, 2014. </font></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the designer of this coin (and the similar issue for Septimius Severus) conflated Fides with Bonus Eventus. Was he thinking of Agatha Tyche, the female personification of good fortune? We&#039;ll never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although Henry Cohen recognized the figure as Fides (La Foi) ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... Mattingly and Sydenham (RIC IV-1) name the reverse figure Bonus Eventus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113662[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe they are in error and that Fides is clearly depicted, despite the BONI EVENTVS inscription.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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