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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3876619, member: 99456&quot;]Interesting write-up and coins, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER].&nbsp; You might enjoy <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.114.4.0464" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.114.4.0464" rel="nofollow">this article</a> on the subject of the evolution of maternal images associated with Julia Domna.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bertolazzi, R. (2019). <u>Julia Domna and her Divine Motherhood: A Re-examination of the Evidence from Imperial Coins</u> <i>The Classical Journal,</i> <i>114</i>(4), 464-486.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the SAECVLI FELICITAS, types minted only for Domna, it notes that the depiction of Isis is problematic in that Isis always appears seated on a chair when suckling Horus and that while the prow might be a reference to the Navigium Isidis (Voyage of Isis to retrieve her husband-brother Osiris&#039; body) the goddess is normally represented holding a billowing sail:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Considering the presence of children on the FECVNDITAS and VENVS GENETRIX types previously issued for Domna, it sounds plausible that the decision of replacing the sail with the little Horus had the purpose of suggesting a more direct connection between her and Isis/Fortuna.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Another observation I found interesting:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Around 202, coins advertising the motherhood of the Augusta temporarily ceased to be minted, presumably on account of the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla, the daughter of the powerful prefect of the guard C. Fulvius Plautianus.&nbsp; The responsibility of perpetuating the dynasty now belonged, in fact, to the new Augusta.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Julia Domna RIC 577 which is missing a couple of letters in the reverse legend with no evidence to make it clear they were ever there, and an unusual looking infant who appears to have wings or the left hand of Isis at his back? die flaw?:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024137[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Julia Domna</b>, wife of Septimius Severus, AR Denarius </p><p><b>Minted: </b>AD 197-201 the time period when imperial court was in Syria and Egypt </p><p><b>Obv:</b> IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>SAECVLI FELICIT (missing AS?), Isis wearing peaked head-dress, standing right, left foot on prow, with the infant Horus at her breast, to left an altar against which rests a rudder</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC IV 577 (Severus); BMCRE 75 (Severus); RSC 174</p><p><br /></p><p>Also another of the earlier Faustina II denari, RIC 711, from 161 AD, when she gave birth to Commodus and his twin brother Antoninus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024159[/ATTACH] <b>Faustina II</b>, Augusta, AD 147-175, AR denarius </p><p>Rome, under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 161</p><p><b>Obv:</b> FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust of Faustina II right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> SAECVLI FELICIT, two infants seated on draped throne</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC 711; BMC 136; RSC 190[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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