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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7998781, member: 75937&quot;]<i>Pace</i> Mattingly, but subsequent work by Szaivert,[1] Fittschen,[2] and Schultz,[3] and later summarized by Szaivert[4] and by Tobias Bärmann und Robert Schneider,[5] has called into question the notion that Lucilla&#039;s coinage began with her marriage to Verus in AD 164 and suggests this coin dates to AD 161 or 162. In light of this recent work, the notion that this coin was issued in AD 169 to commemorate a marriage to someone outside the imperial family is untenable.</p><p><br /></p><p>This research is based upon comparing her numismatic portraiture to sculpture and also upon die studies. This work strongly suggests that coins in her name began to be issued soon after the accession of Aurelius and Verus, probably upon her engagement to Verus in AD 161, and was certainly in place by 162. This makes sense of the titulature on her early coinage, LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F (&quot;For Lucilla Augusta, daughter of Antoninus Augustus&quot;), which focuses on her relationship to her father, Marcus Aurelius. Then, upon her marriage to Verus at Ephesus in 164, she assumed the shortened legend, LVCILLA AVGVSTA, when she was no longer simply the daughter of Aurelius, but the wife of the co-emperor. I find Szaivert&#039;s reasoning convincing, though there are others, such as Rachel Meyers, who argue that her coinage began with her marriage to Verus in AD 164 and may have continued even after the death of Verus in AD 169.[6] I hope that [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] visits this thread to offer his opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meyers concurs with Fittschen and Szaivert that the longer legend is the earlier one, being paired with Lucilla&#039;s first portrait type, while the short legend was used on coins with her second and third portrait types. She notes that the switch to the short legend could have been prompted by the birth of a child, the death of Lucius, or no specific event at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>The consensus of scholarly opinion, then, even among those who disagree with Szaivert about a date of AD 161 or 162 for the onset of Lucilla&#039;s coinage, is that the VOTA PVBLICA type is early: it bears Lucilla&#039;s earliest hairstyle and her earliest obverse legend. The notion that it was issued in AD 169 to honor her engagement to her second husband is out of the question.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Wolfgang Szaivert. &quot;Zur Chronologie der Lucillapraegungen,&quot; <i>J.N.G.</i> 30, 1980, pp. 7-14; also &quot;Die Prägestrukturen im 1. und 2. Jahrhundert in Rom,&quot; T.</p><p>Hackens and R. Weiller (eds) <i>Actes du 9ème Congris International de Numismatique: Berne, Septembre 1979</i>, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Fittschen, Klaus. &quot;Die Bildnistypen der Faustina Minor und die Fecunditas Augustae,&quot; <i>Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen</i>, Philologisch-historische Klasse, 3rd Series, no.126, Göttingen, 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. H.-D. Schultz. &quot;Zur Chronologie des Lucilla-Portraits auf Münzen,&quot; <i>Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität</i> 31 (1982), pp.283-286.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Szaivert, Wolfgang. <i>Die Münzprägung der Kaiser Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus und Commodus (161/192)</i>, Moneta Imperii Romani 18. Vienna, 1989, pp. 231-33.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Bärmann, Tobias, and Robert Schneider. &quot;Die Reichsprägungen Für Annia Galeria Faustina Minor Und Lucilla Unter Marcus Aurelius.&quot; <i>Universität Potsdam: Römische Kaiserfrauen Auf Münzen</i>, <a href="https://www.altegeschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/Kaiserfrauen-auf-Muenzen/marc-aurel.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.altegeschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/Kaiserfrauen-auf-Muenzen/marc-aurel.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.altegeschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/Kaiserfrauen-auf-Muenzen/marc-aurel.html</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Meyers, Rachel. &quot;<a href="https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&amp;context=language_pubs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&amp;context=language_pubs" rel="nofollow">Filiae Augustorum: The Ties That Bind in the Antonine Age</a>.&quot; <i>Classical World</i>, vol. 109, no. 4, 2016, pp. 487–505 (see pp. 496-97 in particular), <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2016.0043" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2016.0043" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2016.0043</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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