Miss Rome-iverse: Who was the most beautiful Augusta?

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Profiles don't show charisma:



And Marcus was hunky with and without that beard!

 

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I'm still experimenting with my coin photography, so plese don't be too harsh. Frustratingly, the note 20 Ultra had trouble focusing on the whole coin. On the Galaxy S5, selecting an area of the object in question would make the whole image come into focus, more or less. Doing so on the note seems to just make the middle of the image come into focus. I'm still trying - see the help! thread.

This image is magnificent, compared to my old tries.

It's a decrepit piece, but larger than usual and a rare empress.

 

Very cool! Supposedly Julianus daughter was the most beautiful young woman in Rome at the time.
This JUST sold on Leu for 1200€... and NOT to me:

 

It's more worn than mine but simultaneously is overall more attractive than my example.

 

My Didia Clara isn't exactly AU 5/5/5 but it does have smoothly patinated surfaces:

 

Neat!

 

Crispina looks quite foxy/80s heavy metal style here


Plautilla doesn't look ugly at all


... or Lucilla


I don't think Agrippina II was ugly either.

 

How about Antonia on the reverse of this Alexandrian tetradrachm of her son Claudius:

 

Adrien Brody definitely has to play Nerva if they ever make a movie of that period! And I especially like that last portrait of Marcus Aurelius.

 

I bought this denarius of Plautilla because it just struck me how charming she appeared and she had such a tragic ending...



then there is Julia Mamaea who has attractive features...



Then, there is a certain regal beauty of Antonia...



Then, there is Agrippina, OR NOT...

 

I like good Augusta portraits. Here are a few of my favorite ones.

Faustina II, Julia Domna and Fausta.

 

Let’s toss FULVIA in the mix! What she accomplished in a ego-centric male-driven society is amazing...

She would be a nice start on the honoring of Women in History Month of March.

ROMAN REPUBLIC SUPER-TABOO...

Fulvia: First Living Woman on a Roman Coin... AND she is depicted as VICTORY

A very powerful and strong Woman in Ancient History, especially in a male-centric Roman Republic.

Roman Republic (disintegrating)
Fulvia
Late summer-autumn 43 BCE
AR Quinarius (13mm, 1.67 g, 5h).
Lugdunum (Lyon) mint.
Obv: Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia /
Rev: Lion walking right; DVNI (retrograde and inverted) above, LVGV in exergue; A to left, X [L] to right (= 40, Antony’s age at time of issue).
Crawford 489/5; Lyon 2; King 75; CRI 122; Sydenham 1160; Fulvia 4.
Comments: VF, lightly toned, light porosity.
Ex: CNG

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvia
The siege at Perusia lasted two months before Octavian starved Lucius into surrender in February 40 BC. After Lucius' surrender, Fulvia fled to Greece with her children. Appian writes that she met Antony in Athens, and he was upset with her involvement in the war. Antony then sailed back to Rome to deal with Octavian, and Fulvia died of an unknown illness in exile in Sicyon, near Corinth, Achaea.[46] After her death, Antony and Octavian used it as an opportunity to blame their quarrelling on her. According to Plutarch, "there was even more opportunity for a reconciliation with Caesar. For when Antony reached Italy, and Caesar manifestly intended to make no charges against him, and Antony himself was ready to put upon Fulvia the blame for whatever was charged against himself."[46] After Fulvia's death, Antony married Octavian's sister, Octavia Minor, to publicly demonstrate his reconciliation with Octavian. Antony never regained his position and influence in Italy.[47]

Once Antony and Octavia were married, she took in and reared all of Fulvia's children. The fate of Fulvia's daughter, Clodia Pulchra, after her divorce from Octavian is unknown. Her son Marcus Antonius Antyllus was executed by Octavian in Alexandria, Egypt in 30 BC. Her youngest child, Iullus Antonius, was spared by Octavian and raised from 40 BC by Octavia Minor. Iullus married Octavia's daughter and Octavian's niece Claudia Marcella Major and they had a son Lucius Antonius and possibly a daughter Iulla Antonia.