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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6812282, member: 75937&quot;]Both are very nice, [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER], and I&#039;m hard pressed to tell you which one to keep and which one to sell off. I&#039;m of the &quot;Why limit yourself to one coin per person?&quot; school of numismatics and I have several dozen coins of this fascinating historical figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have five sestertii of Julia Domna in my collection, each with features that make them representative of different phases in her reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>This first one is very early, before AD 196, when she used JVLIA DOMNA AVG as the obverse inscription:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-veneri-victr-sestertius-jpg.1187090/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217</p><p>Roman oricalchum sestertius, 21.41 g, 28.8 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 194, issue 4.</p><p>Obv: JULIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, r.</p><p>Rev: VENERI VICTR SC, Venus, naked to waist, standing r., holding apple and palm, resting l. elbow on column.</p><p>Refs: RIC-842; BMCRE-488; Cohen-195; Sear-6631; Hill-113.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one has her earlier hairstyle, but uses the subsequent IVLIA AVGVSTA obverse inscription:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272243[/ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman oricalchum sestertius, 19.29 g, 29.4 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 199.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: VENVS FELIX S C, Venus standing left, holding apple and fold of drapery.</p><p>Refs: RIC 866; BMCRE 775; Cohen 199; RCV 6632; Hill 387.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third also uses the IVLIA AVGVSTA inscription, but was issued just before her husband died and it features a transitional hairstyle resembling her late &quot;helmet hair&quot; coiffure:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-ivnoni-lvcinae-sestertius-jpg.736131/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius; 26.43 g, 32.5 mm, 12 h</p><p>Rome, AD 211</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right</p><p>Rev: IVNONI LVCINAE, Juno enthroned left, holding flower and child in swaddling clothes</p><p>Refs: RIC 857; BMCRE 770; Cohen 94; RCV 6627; Hill 1173.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth is one issued under the authority of Caracalla after the death of Septimius Severus and bears the IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG inscription and her late coiffure.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272345[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217</p><p>Roman Orichalcum sestertius, 21.3 g, 32 mm.</p><p>Rome, issued under Caracalla, AD 213.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: IVNONEM SC, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; peacock at feet.</p><p>Refs: RIC 585b; BMCRE 210; RCV 7114 var.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fifth is also of this late era, but Julia wears a stephane:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-vesta-seated-sestertius-jpg.1132843/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 19.44 g, 29.75 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 211-217.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, bust of Julia Domna, draped and wearing stephane, right.</p><p>Rev: VESTA S C, Vesta seated left, holding simpulum in right hand and transverse scepter in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 593; BMCRE 217-219; Cohen 228; RCV 7123; Hill 1460.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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