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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnemicOak, post: 232050, member: 5224&quot;]Just added a Julia Domna to my collection...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/AnemicOak/8608LG.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna / Venus / Denarius</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution:</b> RIC 388c (RIC IV, Part I)</p><p><b>Date:</b> struck 211-217 at Rome</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG - Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right with hair elaborately waved in ridges and turned up low at the back</p><p><b>Reverse:</b>&nbsp; VENVS GENETRIX - Venus seated left, extending right hand and holding sceptre</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Size:</b> 19.8mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 2.64 grams</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna was the second wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta.&nbsp; She was the sister of Julia Maesa.&nbsp; In 217 A.D. after the assassination of Caracalla, she possibly committed suicide by starvation or she died of breast cancer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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