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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4617349, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], it's certainly not unprecedented for coins of women in the Severan dynasty to be issued with reverses showing small children, despite the fact that the children of those women were grown, or even when they had teenage grandchildren. It's possible, as you suggest, that what's intended is a generalized representation of motherhood rather than a depiction of specific royal offspring.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna AR Denarius 208 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA AVGVSTA/ Rev. Hilaritas standing left holding palm branch & cornucopiae, two small children [<i>perhaps representing her already-grown children Caracalla and Geta?</i>] at her feet, HILA-RITAS. RIC IV-1 557, RSC III 79, Sear RCV II 6587. 19.39 mm, 3.25 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143539[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Maesa (grandmother of Elagabalus & Severus Alexander), AR Denarius, 218-22 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA MAESA AVG / Rev. Fecunditas standing left holding cornucopiae, a small child at her feet, FECVNDI-TAS AVG. RIC IV-2 249, RSC III 8 (ill.), Sear RCV II 7749. 20.08 mm., 2.58 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4617349, member: 110350"][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], it's certainly not unprecedented for coins of women in the Severan dynasty to be issued with reverses showing small children, despite the fact that the children of those women were grown, or even when they had teenage grandchildren. It's possible, as you suggest, that what's intended is a generalized representation of motherhood rather than a depiction of specific royal offspring. Julia Domna AR Denarius 208 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA AVGVSTA/ Rev. Hilaritas standing left holding palm branch & cornucopiae, two small children [[I]perhaps representing her already-grown children Caracalla and Geta?[/I]] at her feet, HILA-RITAS. RIC IV-1 557, RSC III 79, Sear RCV II 6587. 19.39 mm, 3.25 g. [ATTACH=full]1143539[/ATTACH] Julia Maesa (grandmother of Elagabalus & Severus Alexander), AR Denarius, 218-22 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust right, IVLIA MAESA AVG / Rev. Fecunditas standing left holding cornucopiae, a small child at her feet, FECVNDI-TAS AVG. RIC IV-2 249, RSC III 8 (ill.), Sear RCV II 7749. 20.08 mm., 2.58 g. [ATTACH=full]1143538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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