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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3525234, member: 44316&quot;]Theme: Peacock</p><p>[ATTACH=full]936535[/ATTACH] </p><p>Paulina</p><p>DIVA PAVLINA</p><p>CONSECRATIO</p><p>BMC 127</p><p>Sear 8400</p><p>20 mm. 2.77 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author of BMC was unaware of any ancient written records that connected Paulina to Maximinus, but the coins clearly did. That she was the wife of Maximinus had been inferred from the the facts that her coins often have his nose and chin line and the coin quality is much like that of Maximimus&#039;s coins. That is, the engravers merely put a female spin on his portrait. However, there is a <a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=289363" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=289363" rel="nofollow">stone inscription from Paestum that mentions them together</a>. Another stone inscription gives the title Augusta to Paulina (suggesting she was alive at the time) but her coins are all posthumous, which may explain why her portraits are not more individual; she was not around to serve as a model for the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next Theme:&nbsp; Son of Paulina (Maximus)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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