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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24599300, member: 26430&quot;]<b><font size="6">LIVIA </font></b></p><blockquote><p>&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia" rel="nofollow">Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of emperor Augustus</a>.&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been watching the TV show about her (&quot;Domina&quot;) -- and Augustus, and Tiberius (under whom the coin below was struck), and Drusus (under whose name, as Caesar, it was struck). Can&#039;t say I like it as much as HBO&#039;s &quot;Rome&quot; (&quot;THIRTEEN!!&quot; &quot;I&#039;m Titus Pullo, right!&quot;), but I do like a show that stokes my curiosities about&nbsp; ancient Roman intrigue.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562904[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The portrait on this Dupondius (struck c. 22 CE) is often described as &quot;Livia as Pietas.&quot; I&#039;m sure there are people who argue that it&#039;s NOT a &quot;disguised portrait&quot; of Livia, but I&#039;ll accept it at face value for now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always wondered if the big scar across the obverse was meant as a deliberate defacement of Livia&#039;s portrait (as you see on emperors whose reputations fell on hard times, such as Nero)? There wasn&#039;t a <i>damnatio</i> and she wasn&#039;t particularly despised by the people, was she?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>NEXT</b>: <i>Domitian </i>(we haven&#039;t done them yet, have we?)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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