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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4467796, member: 75937&quot;]Browsing through Carson&#039;s <i>Principal Coins of the Romans, Volume II: The Principate 31BC - AD 296</i>, I came across this interesting bit of information (p. 73):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The (reverse) type had been used for princes such as Marcus Aurelius and Commodus and is here associated with the emperor&#039;s daughter, Didia Clara. The choice may have been influenced by the recent celebration of the <i>Hilaria</i>, the festival of Cybele, on 25 March, just before the accession of Didius Julianus on 28 March.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post a coin that you recently learned an interesting tidbit about (along with the tidbit, of course)!</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-2-18_16-18-6-png.1069964/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Didia Clara, daughter of Didius Julianus and Manlia Scantilla, Augusta, AD 193.</p><p>Roman Æ Sestertius, 21.16 g, 30.5 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 193.</p><p>Obv: DIDIA CLARA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: HILARITAS SC, Hilaritas standing, head left, holding palm branch and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 20; BMCRE 38-41; RCV 6087.</p><p>Notes: obverse die 3, reverse die H, Woodward, &quot;The Coinage of Didius Julianus and His Family.&quot; <i>Num Chron.</i> 121:71, 1961. Reverse die-match to <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-15137" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-15137" rel="nofollow">BMC 40</a> and <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-15138" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-15138" rel="nofollow">BMC 41</a> in the British Museum collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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