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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3366808, member: 75937&quot;]For the first time, I looked up this coin in Banduri&#039;s <i>Numismata imperatorum Romanorum a Trajano Decio ad Palaeologos augustos</i>, published in 1718, so it admittedly does not reflect the most modern scholarship on this coin. The middle bronzes with both the AVG and AVGG legends are listed:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]893071[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note there is a footnote in the listing with the AVGG legend. It reads:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]893072[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is translated as &quot;This coin does not praise the fecundity of the empress but that of the emperor and the empress* ...&quot; The remainder of the footnote mentions the existence of similar issues of the Empress in silver and notes their rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>This answers my question: AVGG refers to Decius and his wife. </p><p><br /></p><p>*Augustorum is genitive plural; literally &quot;of the august ones,&quot; and refers to the imperial couple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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