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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4522866, member: 75937&quot;]How did I miss this thread?! Too busy working from home yesterday, I guess!</p><p><br /></p><p>It has the earliest obverse legend, FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, so that narrows it down a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only types with this obverse legend and a standing female deity are:</p><p><br /></p><p>CONCORDIA (which you&#039;ve posted)</p><p>HILARITAS (Cohen 114) Wildwinds specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120464[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>IVNONI LVCINAE (Cohen 133)</p><p>LAETITIAE PVBLICAE (BMCRE 2139-41; stephane 2139-40, strand of pearls 2141) British Museum specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120462[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>VENERI GENETRICI (which you&#039;ve posted)</p><p>VENVS (BMC 2147-50, which you&#039;ve posted) with the apple and resting hand on rudder coiled by dolphin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can scratch off all the other ones you&#039;ve posted because they were issued later (pay attention to FAVSTINAE vs. FAVSTINA and AVG vs. AVGVSTA).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think it&#039;s VENERI GENETRICI because I have never seen this reverse combined with a bust that was not wearing the stephane.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not convinced that IVNONI LVCINAE (Cohen 133) actually exists as described and Cohen may have made a mistake with the legends. I&#039;ve never seen an example, even after an exhaustive internet search, though Strack cites examples in Paris (the Cohen specimen) and Vienna (neither posted online). It&#039;s Strack 1299 and he notes a band of pearls on the obverse bust, not mentioned by Cohen (who typically doesn&#039;t mention this).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I can see a hint of a transverse scepter on yours and I&#039;m going with Laetitia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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