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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 16652767, member: 128351&quot;]<i>Virtus </i>is a very frequent legend on Roman coins from the 1st c. BC to the 5th c. AD. It can be <i>Virtus </i>alone, <i>Virtus Aug</i>. or <i>Augg</i>., <i>Virtus exercitus</i>, etc... </p><p>The legend Virtus is found associated with a lot of different images. The oldest ones, I think, must be the Q. Fufius Calenus and Mucius Cordus denarii of BC 68: jugate heads of Honos and Virtus right. Virtus is wearing a crested helmet and is unbearded, it can be interpreted as young male or female. On denarii of Galba, the legend <i>Virtus </i>is associated with the image of a young naked male figure standing leaning on spear and holding parazonium (a type inspired by a statue of Alexander by Lysippus). But on sestertii of the same emperor with the reverse <i>Honos et Virtus</i>, Virtus is a female deity hemeted and dressed like an amazon, one breast naked. On other coins of other emperors Virtus is sometimes male (and wearing a cuirass) or female. </p><p>Representations of Virtus on the coinage of Philip the Arab are not very original. It is the female amazonic Virtus standing right (<i>Virtus exercitus</i>), or Philip and his son on horseback galloping right and raising hand (a decursio type) with the legend <i>Virtus Augg</i>., or an interesting female helmeted deity seated left on cuirass and holding branch (<i>Virtus Aug</i>.): she is in fact Roma seated, as she was already represented on the Ara Pacis of Augustus. </p><p>Virtus seems to have been a non-binary deity <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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