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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8320772, member: 110350&quot;]Wonderful post, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>First comes love, then comes marriage (or perhaps the reverse in this case), then comes Faustina with a baby carriage (or several of them):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473838[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plautilla (wife of Caracalla; issued under Septimius Severus), AR Denarius, 203-204 AD, Rome Mint.&nbsp; Obv. Draped bust right, hair in horizontal waves and drawn into large bun at back, PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE / Rev. Caracalla standing left, holding volumen with left hand and clasping right hands with Plautilla standing right, PROPAGO IMPERI. Short hairline flan crack. RIC IV (Caracalla) 362, RSC III (Plautilla) 21, Sear RCV II 7073 (ill.). 18 mm., 3.30 g., 6 h. [<i>First appearance of reverse legend PROPAGO IMPERI, celebrating the hoped-for continuation of the Severan house through the union of Caracalla and Plautilla. Cf. RIC IV 367, showing Pietas (representing Plautilla) on reverse holding child, believed to have been issued to celebrate the 204 AD birth of child who died in infancy.</i>] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473839[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sallustia Orbiana (wife of Severus Alexander) AR Denarius 225-227 AD. Rome mint. Special marriage emission of Severus Alexander, AD 225. Obv: SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, Draped bust right, wearing stephane/&nbsp; Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. RIC IV-2 319 (Sev. Alexander); RSC III 1, BMCRE 287 (Sev. Alexander). 19 mm., 3.5 g. Rare.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473841[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III AR Denarius, 241-242 AD, Rome mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG / Rev. Diana standing facing, head right, holding flaming long torch right with both hands, DIANA LVCIFERA. RIC IV-3 127, RSC IV 69, Sear RCV III 8673 (ill.). 20 mm., 2.7 g., 6 h. (<i>Issued in celebration of marriage of Gordian &amp; Tranquillina, 241 AD.&nbsp; See Sear RCV III 8673 at p. 123</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473846[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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