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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8365967, member: 85693&quot;]Great Roman Republican Juno Sospita denarii in this thread.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I happen to have the Antoninus Pius sestertius referenced in the OP.&nbsp; It is not pretty, but thanks to [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] I have am confident about the attribution:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484621[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(140-144 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>ANTONINVS AVG PIVS [PP TR P COS III], laureate head rt. slight drapery on left shoulder / [IVNONI SISPITAE] S-C, Juno Sospita advancing right, preceded</p><p>by snake, brandishing javelin and holding shield pinched in middle.</p><p>RIC III 608; BMCRE 1248.</p><p>(24.25 grams / 32 mm)</p><p>eBay May 2018 Lot @ $7.19 </p><p><b>Notes:</b>&nbsp; &quot;Since the obv. legend of your sestertius clearly begins ANTONINVS AVG PIVS all on the left, you are correct to restore the rev. legend as IVNONI SISPITAE, also a scarce to rare coin, and interesting for providing the name of the goddess, illegible though it is on your specimen.&quot;</p><p>Curtis Clay, Coin Talk Mar. 2020</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/you-dont-come-across-one-of-these-very-often.356425/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/you-dont-come-across-one-of-these-very-often.356425/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/you-dont-come-across-one-of-these-very-often.356425/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a nice example on FORVM, with notes about the issue: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=4280&amp;pos=44" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=4280&amp;pos=44" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=4280&amp;pos=44</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to Antoninus Pius, there are other Juno Sospita types for Commodus, though they are apparently scarce.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an OCRE search that came up with some:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=%28deity_facet%3A%22Juno%22+OR+deity_facet%3A%22Juno+Sospita%22%29+AND+%28portrait_facet%3A%22Antoninus+Pius%22+OR+portrait_facet%3A%22Commodus%22%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=%28deity_facet%3A%22Juno%22+OR+deity_facet%3A%22Juno+Sospita%22%29+AND+%28portrait_facet%3A%22Antoninus+Pius%22+OR+portrait_facet%3A%22Commodus%22%29" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=(deity_facet:&quot;Juno&quot;+OR+deity_facet:&quot;Juno+Sospita&quot;)+AND+(portrait_facet:&quot;Antoninus+Pius&quot;+OR+portrait_facet:&quot;Commodus&quot;)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure why Sospita is spelt SISPITAE with an I instead of an O, but despite several years of Latin in school, I&#039;m quite ignorant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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