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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3039059, member: 87404&quot;]Crispinas tend to be slightly more $$$ than F2.&nbsp; That price is relatively fair, especially since you&#039;re in a hurry. If you had time, you could be picker on quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a recent Crispina purchase of mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]758276[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Bruttia Crispina, Wife of Commodus, Empress 178-191 AD</b></p><p><b>AE As, Struck 180-182 AD, Rome Mint</b></p><p>Obverse: CRISPINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right, hair knotted in a bun in back.</p><p>Reverse: LAETITIA S-C, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath &amp; rudder on globe.</p><p>References: RIC 683; BMC 435; Cohen 28</p><p>Size: 25mm, 11.80g</p><p><br /></p><p>Some additional information that I have on the back of my attribution slip:</p><p><br /></p><p>Crispina came from an illustrious aristocratic family. Crispina married the sixteen-year-old Commodus in the summer of 178 and brought him, as a dowry, a large number of estates. These, when added to the Imperial holdings, gave him control of a substantial part of Lucanian territory. Like most marriages of young members of the nobiles, it was arranged by patres—in Crispina&#039;s case by her father and her new father-in-law, the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Crispina is described as being a graceful person with a susceptible heart.</p><p><br /></p><p>She did not seem to have any significant political influence over her husband during his bizarre reign. However, she was not exempted from court politics either, as her sister-in-law Lucilla, herself a former empress, was reportedly ambitious and jealous of the reigning empress Crispina due to her position and power.</p><p><br /></p><p>Crispina&#039;s marriage failed to produce an heir due to her husband&#039;s inability to produce offspring with her to ensure the dynastic succession. After ten years of marriage, Crispina was falsely charged with adultery by her husband and was banished to the island of Capri in 188, where she was later executed. After her banishment, Commodus did not marry again but took on a mistress, a woman named Marcia, who was later said to have conspired in his murder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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