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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3628825, member: 74834&quot;]However, learning something every day on Coin Talk, only now I understand that Latin Fortuna = Greek Tyche. It&#039;s because of Doug&#039;s remark <i>&quot;If rudder, then Fortuna?&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Here are two Greek Fortunes then:</p><p><br /></p><p>AE Julia Domna (193-217), Parlais, Pisidia. Obv. Draped bust right. IVLIA DOMNA. Rev. Tyche standing facing, head left, holding cornucopia and rudder. IVL AVG COL PARLAIS. 20 mm, 4.56 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973277[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortune looks if she&#039;s at a golf tournament, having won already a big cornucopia.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this nice little Provincial is from Pisidia, too:</p><p><br /></p><p>AE14, Julia Paula (218-219), first wife of Elagabalus. Mint Claudio-Seleucia or Seleucia in Pisidia. Obv. bust t.r. with text IOU.K.PAVLA. Rev. Tyche, holding a rudder and (smallish) cornucopia with text KLA V DIOCE. 13 mm, 2.63 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973279[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And a caricatural Fortune is this barbarous imitation of a Commodus denarius, found near Ukrainian Kursk in the late 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus, AR barbarous imitation of a denarius. Obv. Laureate head t.r., AVREL (…) MODVSAVG. Rev. A ponytailed girl, long flowing dress, with a walking stick and an hourglass (= Fortune with rudder and cornucopia?), IS E II O IIVS. 17 mm, 1.78 gr. Sergeev p. 214-216.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973282[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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