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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 732116, member: 19463&quot;]This is a great addition to the collection.&nbsp; The portrait is lovely.&nbsp; The question I&#039;d like to see addressed is the use of AVGG and AVGVSTORVM on her coins suggesting there were two emperors.&nbsp; Other coins of the period (Alexander and Mamaea) do not share the plural.&nbsp; It was not common practice to use a plural on coins of other women except for a few issues of Domna when both her husband and son were Augusti.&nbsp; So, who was the other Augustus?&nbsp; Counting Orbiana would really be odd and consistant with the friction between her and Mamaea that ended up with her dismissal.&nbsp; There is rumor that her father might have been named as Caesar but there are no coins and a Caesar should not bump up the number (although this question did come up again much later when there are coins of Numerian Caesar using AVGGG.&nbsp; Orbiana coins were not made for very long and really show interesting questions of history that don&#039;t answer too easily.&nbsp; Congratulations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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