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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8297814, member: 110350&quot;]Tiberius, AE As, 15-16 AD, Rome Mint [bronze equivalent of “Tribute Penny” design]. Obv. Bare head right, TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST[VS?] IMP VII / Rev. Draped female figure [<i>Tiberius’s mother Livia, or Livia as Pax or Justitia</i>]* seated right, head covered, with feet on stool, holding long sceptre with left hand and patera with extended right hand, PONTIF MAXIM TRIBVN POTEST XVII, S-C across fields. RIC I Tiberius 33 if AVGVST [listed as “R3”; see p. 96] or RIC 35 if AVGVSTVS [listed as R2]; BMCRE I Tiberius 65 [or 66 if AVGVSTVS]; cf. Sear RCV I 1769 (<i>var.</i> with Tiberius facing left). 28 mm., 10.9 g. <i>Purchased from Felicitas.Perpetua Numismatics, UK, July 2021.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467506[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*See RIC I Tiberius, Introduction at p. 87: “As a type, the ‘Pontif. Maxim.’ design was far from informative. Modern scholars are not agreed upon its interpretation, some regarding the seated female figure as Livia in the guise of Pax, some as Pax-Justitia, some simply as the priestess Livia, revered as the wife of the first imperial <i>pontifex maximus</i> and the stepmother of the second. Its significance in the ancient world can hardly have been much more immediate than it is to the modern, and it was probably viewed as a type suggesting (in association with the legend) nothing more definite than sanctity.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another Imperial bronze of Tiberius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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