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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2160211, member: 44132&quot;]I purchased these two Moneta coins from one of our fellow coiners here on CT a few weeks past.&nbsp; Being the cheapskate I am, I was able to buy both coins for $55 shipped. I thought about giving each it&#039;s own thread, but since they share a common reverse, I thought they should show together.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]415855[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]415856[/ATTACH] </p><p>CONSTANTIUS I</p><p>AE Follis</p><p>OBVERSE: CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, Laurate bust, right</p><p>REVERSE: SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. Star in right field. Mintmark RT</p><p>Struck at Rome 302-303 AD</p><p>8.8g, 27mm</p><p>RIC VI 106a</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]415857[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]415858[/ATTACH] </p><p>DIOCLETIAN</p><p>AE27 Follis</p><p>OBVERSE: IMP DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG, laureate head right&nbsp; </p><p>REVERSE: SACR MONET AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR, Moneta standing left, holding scales &amp; cornucopia, AQS in ex.; crescent and VI across fields </p><p>Struck at Aquileia, 304-305 AD</p><p>8.1g, 27mm</p><p>RIC VI Aquileia 39a</p><p><br /></p><p>From Numiswiki:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;MONETA.&nbsp; This term was used by the Romans to designate their public mint in consequence of money having originally been struck at Rome in the temple of Juno Moneta. This was a surname given to the consort of Jupiter because she was said to have counselled the Romans to undertake none but just wars in which case she promised that they would never be in want of money. The name of Moneta was afterwards used alike to signify pieces of money, and the workshops or officinae in which they were fabricated.</p><p><br /></p><p>MONETA, typified as a woman holding the balance and cornucopia, occurs on coins of nearly all the Emperors from Vitellius to Constantine the Great, both inclusive with the epigraph of AEQVITAS, AEQVITAS AVG, etc, or with the inscription MON AVG, MONETA AVG, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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