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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 5221755, member: 80783&quot;]Can´t wait for Saturnalia and can´t post my Top Ten for this year because my last purchase is still in the mail.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as I feel like posting SOMETHING , here is a Sestertius that I didn´t have the energy to do a writeup for yet, just because I don´t find this empress or her coinage particularly interesting.</p><p>Nevertheless something made me get an upgrade to my two budget Mamaeas. This is still vastly improvable, but it will do for now to complete my Sestertius collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216214[/ATTACH]</p><p>IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA - draped bust of Julia Mamaea right, wavy hair with stephane / VENERI FELICI S C - Venus standing right, holding long sceptre in right hand and winged and naked cupid in left</p><p>Sestertius, Rome AD 224</p><p>30 mm / 17,85 g</p><p>RIC 694 (Sev. Alexander), BMCRE 190, Cohen 62, Sear 8232, Banti 16 (43 Specimens)</p><p>Ex Savoca 88th Silver Auction, 25.10.2020, lot 269</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216218[/ATTACH]</p><p>2nd Century votive marble statue of Venus Felix with her son Cupid (Vatican Museum)</p><p><br /></p><p>Show your Julia Mamaeas and let me know which type of this unsympathetic lady you would find interesting enough to pay a premium for (maybe I will upgrade this one time but then it would have to be a Sestertius spectacularly beautiful or interesting. Does that exist for this Empress?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Stay safe, JG[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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