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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7614300, member: 75937&quot;]Thank you for the kind words!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do love me some Concordia! That denarius participated in thousands of transactions! I&#039;m sure it has traces of gladiator blood and centurion sweat on it!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Beckmann (p. 61) notes only two types of shield in his study of aurei: the wolf and twins, such as this one, <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1958.223.11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1958.223.11" rel="nofollow">ANS 1958.223.11</a> ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1310668[/ATTACH]</p><p>... and Aeneas, <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1955.191.17?lang=en.%20Public%20Domain" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1955.191.17?lang=en.%20Public%20Domain" rel="nofollow">ANS 1955.191.17</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1310669[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Whether the sestertii such as our examples depict other scenes is not clear. I can&#039;t figure out what design the shield on mine is supposed to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to your Lucius Verus VIC/PAR, it was issued simultaneously with Marcus Aurelius&#039; version of that reverse type (13th issue, both numbered 142 in MIR, pp. 110-11), so may also be a companion piece to the Faustina type. While writing about Faustina&#039;s VENVS VICTRIX type, I immediately thought of this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lucilla-venvs-victrix-denarius-jpg.796948/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Lucilla, AD 164-169.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman AR denarius, 3.41 g, 17.3 mm, 11 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rome, AD 166-169.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust right.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rev: VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing facing, head left, holding Victory and resting left hand on shield.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: RIC 786; BMCRE 353; Cohen 89; RCV 5492; CRE 268.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Sear dates this issue to 166-169. Szaivert (MIR p. 233) to 164-167. I wonder if Sear considers this a parallel issue to the VIC/PAR issues of her husband and her father. Temeryazev and Makarenko (pp. 82-3) note a few different varieties of designs on Venus&#039; shield, ranging from a simple dot-like boss to an eight-pointed star to the wolf and twins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, Sear also dates this Hilaritas issue to 166-169 as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1310695[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Lucilla, AD 164-169.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman AR denarius, 3.11 g, 18.1 mm, 7 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rome, AD 166-169.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: HILARITAS, Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm and cornucopiae.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RIC 769; BMCRE 338; Cohen/RSC 28; RCV 5484; MIR 31; CRE 251.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>As Alice says ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media.tenor.com/images/513a0a860a2694959fe3f5bb323afb62/tenor.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your kind words. It&#039;s always a pleasure to know my efforts are appreciated. That&#039;s a lovely middle bronze you have. It&#039;s an excellent example of Beckmann&#039;s type 7 hairstyle with the strand of pearls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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