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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8069658, member: 19463&quot;]I appreciate this sentiment and always prefer selecting reverse types that seem especially appropriate for the person on the obverse.&nbsp; Sometimes that will be nothing more than a &#039;someone standing there&#039; coin.&nbsp; Perhaps we should not be surprised that sequential wives would have less interesting types than women of real power.&nbsp; Maesa was a strong woman but only for a shorter time. Most of her coins were, appropriately, Juno since Maesa was the real Queen even though she was the grandmother.&nbsp; Her daughters were puppets; the wives were decorations.&nbsp; To me, the &#039;interesting&#039; type of hers is this Eastern mint Fecunditas - not what one might expect from an older lady. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Domna was probably more a force and influence on her husband than most wives but, IMO, her most telling type is the moon and stars from &#039;Emesa&#039;.&nbsp; Septimius married her because her horoscope foretold she would marry a king.&nbsp; She did.&nbsp; Most of her interesting types were from the East where the conventions of Rome were not observed.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399456[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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