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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8190805, member: 75937&quot;]Nico Kokkinos&#039; <a href="https://nikoskokkinos.webs.com/antoniaaugusta.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nikoskokkinos.webs.com/antoniaaugusta.htm" rel="nofollow"><i>Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady</i></a> is worth obtaining for your library. While I have the older, hard-cover edition (1992), it is available in a newer, paperback edition (2002), which is described in <a href="https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2003/2003.11.18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2003/2003.11.18" rel="nofollow">one review</a> as a &quot;major rewrite,&quot; with an additional chapter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433969[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike what one would expect from the title, the book is not simply a biography of the daughter of Marc Antony and Octavia, wife of Nero Claudius Drusus, and mother of Claudius, Germanicus and Livilla. It isn&#039;t a book focusing on her coins or portraits, either. Rather, it&#039;s an interdisciplinary review of everything we know about Antonia from many different sources: literary and historical, inscriptions, papyri, coins and tokens, sculpture, other arts, and architecture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although only one chapter is devoted to her coins, it is a book that ancient coin collectors will want to read because it compiles all the various sources of information in a single volume.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433970[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only one coin of Antonia, a dupondius issued under her son, Claudius.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1433972[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Antonia, Augusta AD 37 and 41.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman orichalcum dupondius, 12.10 gm, 28.3 mm.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rome, AD 41-50.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: ANTONIA AVGVSTA, bust of Antonia, draped and bare-headed right, hair in long plait.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP S C, Claudius, veiled and togate, standing left, holding simpulum in right hand.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: RIC 92; BMC 166; Cohen <i>Antonia</i> 6; RCV 1902; CBN 143; Carson 405. </font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><i>I&#039;d love to hear your thoughts about this book, about Antonia, and to see your coins of this interesting figure in Roman history!</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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