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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 22887403, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no knowledge of this type of coinage but I do have access to Vagi&#039;s book. In it he thanks Matthew Kreuzer &quot;especially in helping advance the idea of Livilla on coinage&quot;. He goes on later to say:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Numismatic Note: Livilla is represented on only one coin type a dupondius of 22/23 issued by Tiberius in the name of his son, Drusus. However, this is not acknowledged in the standard references, such as RIC, BMC and Cohen. Though this correct identification was proposed late in the 19th Century, it was not adopted in Cohen’s multi-volume treatise (which was revised and republished from 1880-1892), and as a result it has been largely overlooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the three dupondii which Tiberius struck in the ‘family’ bronzes of 22/23, the one which honors Livilla bears the bust of Pietas, the personification of duty toward the gods, the state, and the family. As such, Pietas was the ideal guise for the public image of Livilla. She was, after all, the wife of Drusus and the mother of Tiberius’ twin grandsons. Equally strong evidence can be found with the reverse inscription, for it is the only one of the three dupondii which bears Drusus’ name and titles (the other two name Tiberius). In the family aes series of 22/23, only three coins bear Drusus’ name in the inscriptions: the as which portrays Drusus, the sestertius which honors the twin sons he allegedly sired, and the Pietas dupondius. The three coins make a family set: a sestertius for the children, a dupondius for the mother and an as for the father. As if more evidence were necessary we should also consider that these are the only three Imperial coins bearing the name of Drusus (and, as such, they all should be of relevance to Drusus and his family). Indeed, to conclude anything other than that it is Livilla who is meant to be honored by the Pietas dupondius is simply to ignore the overwhelming evidence at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically, this issue reflects the public image of Livilla as a devoted mother and wife, in reality she was neither. Not only did she conspire with her adulterous lover Sejanus to murder her husband, but it seems likely that her twin sons were sired by Sejanus. As such, the Pietas dupondius is one of the least-forthright issues of the Julio-Claudians. For details about the other two dupondii in the series, see the Numismatic Notes following the biographies of Livia, Antonia and Agrippina Senior.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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