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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3191121, member: 75937&quot;]I&#039;m fascinated by the hairstyles of the Roman empresses and once <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/herennia-etruscilla-bust-styles-and-mints-its-confusing-indeed.308030/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/herennia-etruscilla-bust-styles-and-mints-its-confusing-indeed.308030/">wrote a piece</a> about Herennia Etruscilla because the early literature was not consistent about which of the two hairstyles was earlier. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple you don&#039;t often see because they are from the Antioch mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]823856[/ATTACH] </p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253.</p><p>Roman AR Antoninianus, 4.10 g, 23.3 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 250-251.</p><p>Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent, hair smooth and with a long plait carried up the back of the head.</p><p>Rev: AEQVITAS AVGG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae</p><p>Refs: RIC 64; RSC 3d; RCV 9491; CRE 540; Hunter p. xcix.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]823857[/ATTACH] </p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253.</p><p>Roman AR Antoninianus, 4.18 g, 23.2 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 250-251.</p><p>Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent, hair with horizontal waves and with a long plait carried up the back of the head; •• below bust.</p><p>Rev: VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding marsupium (?) and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 68b; RCV 9499.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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