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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4691110, member: 110350&quot;]Notice her very Amazonian bared right breast.&nbsp; Male figures are not depicted looking like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another Virtus with a parazonium, held in the same rather interesting position as the one [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] posted:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, AE Dupondius, 123 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Radiate head right, IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG PM TRP COS III / Rev. Virtus standing right, right breast bare, left foot on helmet, holding spear with right hand and parazonium with left hand, VIRTUTI AVGVSTI, S - C across fields. Old RIC II 605 (1926 ed.), Sear RCV II 3670, Cohen 1470, BMCRE 1239. 27 mm., 11.36 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153412[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Another coin of Hadrian from before 125 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: I didn&#039;t even notice when I posted this request that there happens to have been a thread started just today on the early coins of Hadrian. But perhaps someone can show one that hasn&#039;t been posted already in that thread?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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