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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3526507, member: 87404&quot;]<a href="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190326_213818487.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190326_213818487.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190326_213818487.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Ruled 27 BC-14 AD, with Julia Augusta (Livia),</b></p><p><b>AE Dupondius, Celtiberian/Roman Hispania, Colonia Romula, Struck under Tiberius after 16 AD</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: PERM DIVI AVG COL ROM, Radiate bust of Augustus right; star above, thunderbolt before.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: IVLIA AVGVSTA GENETRIX ORBIS, head of Livia left set on globe, her head surmounted by a crescent.</p><p><b>References</b>: RPC I 73, SNG Copenhagen 421</p><p><b>Size</b>: 32mm, 22.3g</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus captures the deified features of Sol (Apollo) and is associated with his wife Livia (Julia) as Luna. Livia is presented as the mother of the world, placed between the globe and the crescent moon. The accent is placed on the divine role of Augustus surmounted by a celestial body, not unlike that of J. Caesar, accompanied by the lightning of Jupiter. Livia is represented with the lunar (ascending) attribute placed on the globe which indicates that she is alive and mother of the present Augustus, Tiberius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus had married Livia in 38 BC. Livia Drusilla was the daughter Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alifida. She was born on January 30, 58 BC. At sixteen, she married Tiberius Claudius Nero from whom she had two sons, Tiberius and Nero Drusus. She divorced her husband in 39 BC when she was pregnant with her second child to marry Octavius, the future Augustus. Married for fifty two years, the emperor preceded her in the grave on August 19, 14. Livia survived him fifteen years and died in 29 at the age of 87 years. Suetonius portrays her as cunning and upstart, having accomplished everything to secure the throne to her son Tiberius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, Hispanic/Iberian coin struck under Tiberius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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