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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3207773, member: 76086&quot;]There is likely some confusion as to what may constitute a &#039;wedding theme&#039;.&nbsp; Oz&#039;s OP coin showing Plautilla clasping hands with Antoninus (minted circa 202-203, the wedding having taken place in 202) clearly falls into that category.&nbsp; The legend on that coin might be considered as proclaiming &#039;fruitful harmony&#039;, clearly a propaganda issue as the marriage was forced and Antoninus despised her.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many issues where one person clasping hands with another doesn&#039;t indicate marriage, but signifying a cementing of a concept.&nbsp; A couple coins from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]832019[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here Hadrian is seen clasping hands with Fortuna, signifying his return to Rome after some of his fabled travels about the empire.&nbsp; The legend basically says &#039;fortunate return&#039;.&nbsp; From a sestertius. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]832020[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On this Lucius Verus sestertius we see Verus and Marcus clasping hands with the legends proclaiming the &#039;concord of the emperors&#039;, a referral to the succession of the imperial line.</p><p><br /></p><p>Often times we see words such as &#039;concord&#039; and &#039;felix&#039; used on propaganda types not as they were issued right around the time of marriage but because rumor had gotten out about how much the married couple despised one another.&nbsp; And Roman history id filled with such examples of unhappy marriages.&nbsp; Hadrian and Sabina hated one another, but there wasn&#039;t a massive issue of propaganda types to combat the fact (I think due to the overall prosperity of the time).</p><p><br /></p><p>One pet peeve I have is the tendency to call the double portrait provincial issues of Gordian as &#039;marriage issues&#039;.&nbsp; They certainly were not, unless one wants to include Sarapis, who features prominently on the series.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It may be a cataloging error, but that certainly is not Zeus, but Antoninus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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