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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7487463, member: 75937&quot;]Szaivert (MIR, pp. 231-233), building upon his earlier work and the studies of Fittschen and Schultz, has proposed a chronology of Lucilla&#039;s coinage based upon the changes in her hairstyle. New research and die-studies suggest that she became Augusta soon after the accession of Aurelius and Verus following the death of Antoninus Pius in AD 161, and coinage in her name was certainly in place by 162.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the titulature of her early coinage focuses on her relationship to her father, Marcus Aurelius: LVCILLA AVG ANTONINI AVG F, &quot;Lucilla Augusta, daughter of Antoninus Augustus.&quot; Lucilla was born in AD 149 or 150 and would have been about twelve when coins were first issued for her.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, upon her marriage to Verus at Ephesus in 164, she assumed the shortened legend LVCILLA AVGVSTA as befitted a full Augusta. Lucilla continued to bear the title of Augusta until her death in 182, but it is extremely unlikely that coins continued to be issued after the death of Verus in 169, and certainly not after her subsequent marriage to Ti. Claudius Pompeianus. Szaivert advocates an end to her coinage around 166/167.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin, [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER], depicts the empress in her earliest hairstyle, and dates from AD 161/2 - 163. She is a girl of 12 or 13 years of age on your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two similar middle bronzes with the VESTA S C reverse legend, one depicting an altar at the goddess&#039; feet and another without the altar. The type without the altar is scarce.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1295190[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lucilla, AD 161-182.</p><p>Roman Æ as or dupondius, 11.24 g, 25.2 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161-163.</p><p>Obv: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: VESTA S C, Vesta standing left, holding simpulum and Palladium; altar at feet, left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1780; BMCRE 1192; Cohen 95; RCV 5528; MIR 21-[7/10a].</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1295191[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lucilla, AD 161-182.</p><p>Roman Æ as or dupondius, 9.94 g, 24.2 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161-163.</p><p>Obv: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: VESTA S C, Vesta standing left, holding simpulum and Palladium.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1781; BMCRE 1190-91; Cohen 96; RCV 5527; MIR 21-[7/10a].[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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