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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2273270, member: 75937&quot;]I just bought this denarius of Julia Mamaea from Harlan Berk&#039;s most recent auction. It&#039;s RIC 341.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, RIC describes the reverse as portraying Juno seated left, holding flower and short scepter. However, Berk&#039;s catalog description reads &quot;Juno seated l. holding flower and swathed child.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen other examples of this coin, and a few look like a scepter. Many others, however, are not clearly identifiable as to what the goddess is holding.</p><p><br /></p><p>Juno, in her guise as Juno Lucinae, who was the protectress of midwives and women in labor and her role was to ease delivery and bring the baby safe into the light. She is featured on many coins and is typically portrayed with or holding children. Most often, she is featured holding a flower (which Juno obtained from the goddess Flora and by which she conceived Mars), but occasionally with a patera and scepter (attributes of Juno). Thus, it&#039;s possible this coin features Juno Lucinae and the object portrayed is a baby, not a short scepter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis Clay at Harlan Berk certainly knows his coins, so I think the catalog description was purposeful in its disagreement with RIC. What do you guys think? Baby or scepter?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]453085[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]453086[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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