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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8210789, member: 80952&quot;]Here is a Julia Domna denarius (condition is not the main reason I like a coin), one of my favorites, also because of the propaganda</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440479[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Denarius AR</p><p>18 mm, 2,68 g</p><p>RIC IV Caracalla 381 (denarius)</p><p>Date: AD 211</p><p>Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, Bust of Julia Domna, hair elaborately waved in ridges and turned up low at the back, draped, right / Rev: MAT AVGG MAT SEN M PATR, Julia Domna, draped, seated left, holding branch in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand</p><p><br /></p><p>So mother of the Augustii (plural), mother of the Senate, mother of the people.</p><p>Can&#039;t ask for much more.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what I insist on - on this one even RIC has an incomplete/inaccurate dating.</p><p>It is listed as 211-217 AD but since Julia Domna was the mother of &quot;Augustii&quot;, this means Geta was still alive. So this coin is minted in 211.</p><p>This is why you need to be as careful as you can when attributing your coins - one of the CT colleagues spotted this situation on my coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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