Daughter of Marcus Aurelius, wife of Lucius Verus, and sister of Commodus, Lucilla was another lady with a tragic fate... Like Crispina, who was a few years later also executed by Commodus on the island of Capri, it is almost impossible to find a fine style portrait of her on a Denarius, but for whatever reasons the artists took much more care with the design of her bronze dies: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F / VENVS S C Draped bust of Lucilla right / Venus standing left, holding apple and scepter Sestertius, Rome 164-169 30 mm / 20 gr RIC (M.Aurelius) 1763, Cohen 72 Show your Lucillas!
Nice portrait @Julius Germanicus LUCILLAÆ Sestertius OBVERSE: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust right REVERSE: VESTA, S-C, Vesta standing left, holding palladium and sacrificing with simpulum over lighted altar to left Struck at Rome, 161-161 AD 30.4 mm, 21.89g RIC 1779; BMCRE 1178
Lovely posts!!! I picked up an inexpensive but rough silver example---just to have one; Vesta sacrificing over altar, RIC 788:
Nice Quarter-Den @Julius Germanicus I have an AR Den... RI Lucilla AR denarius Juno seated flower child in swaddling clothes Seaby 36
O, so you're the one! "tater" i should have bid higher.. nice coin for the price JG. i'm still kicking myself for falling asleep.
Nice coin. You can tell she must have been an attractive lady from her portraiture. This is the only Lucilla I've ever owned:
Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus, AD 164-169. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 28.44g, 10h). Rome mint, struck AD 164-169. Obv: LVCILLAE AVG-ANTONINI AVG F; Draped bust right. Rev: PIETAS; Pietas standing left, holding hand over altar and box of perfumes. Ref: RIC III 1756 (Marcus Aurelius); MIR 18, 11-6a; Cohen 54. Very Fine, brown surfaces, minor reverse porosity. Ex Coin Galleries (17 Nov 1981), Lot 288. Ex CNG eAuction 70 (8 Jun 2003), Lot 53.
My only Lucilla, with what seems to be her typical round little face: Lucilla (wife of Lucius Verus & daughter of Marcus Aurelius) AR Denarius 164-66 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Bare head right, draped, LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F/ Rev. Concordia seated left, holding patera & leaning left forearm against statuette of Spes, CONCORDIA. RIC III 758, RSC II 6a, Sear RCV II 5479. 17.1 mm., 3.4 g.
Lucilla (Augusta, AD 164-169) AE Sestertius (33mm, 28.99 g). Rome mint. AD 164-169. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust of Lucilla right, seen from front, hair in waves and coiled up in chignon at back of head / PIETAS, Pietas, draped, standing facing, diademed and veiled head left, dropping incense from right hand into lighted altar at feet, holding box of incense in left. RIC III (Marcus Aurelius) 1756. Ex Heritage Auctions World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction #3093 (29 October 2021), lot 31139. Ex Heritage Auctions Auction 3061 NYINC (7 January 2018), lot 29396. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Auctions 97 & 98 (12 December 2016), lot 336. Ex Hess-Divo Auction 321 (25 October 2012), lot 267. Ex Frank Sternberg (November 1975), lot 124.
