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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3323886, member: 75937&quot;]A new purchase from Frank&#039;s latest auction -- an as of Herennia Etruscilla, the wife of Trajan Decius. During her tenure as empress, she was the sole woman on the throne. AVGG is plural. To whom does the &quot;fecundity of the august ones&quot; refer? The empress and her husband? The empress and some daughter-in-law? The problem is that apart from numismatic evidence, we wouldn&#039;t even know Herennia Etruscilla was the wife of Trajan Decius! We know next to nothing about her. </p><p><br /></p><p>Has anyone here read a good explanation of the plural AVGG on the reverse of this coin? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]881011[/ATTACH] </p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 8.47 g, 23.4 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Rome mint, 6th officina, AD 251.</p><p>Obv: HERENNIA ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: FECVNDITAS AVGG S C, Fecunditas standing left, her right hand extended to child standing at her feet, holding cornucopiae in left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 135b; Cohen 13; RCV 9507; Hunter 13; ERIC II 53.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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