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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 5000164, member: 75937"]I found Barbara Levick's Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age in the Oxford Women in Antiquity series very informative and interesting, so I put in a pre-order from the publisher to receive another volume in the series, T. Corey Brennan's Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey, upon its release. The book is now available and I wanted to share it with you. I haven't read it yet, having just received it, but it not only looks helpful in terms of its historical information (the Oxford series has high standards for scholarship), but it also contains appendices detailing a classification scheme for the coins based upon the work of Abdy, who is one of the authors of the second edition of RIC II, part 3, as well as a classification scheme and inventory of sculpture/statuary portraits of the empress. [ATTACH=full]1200305[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1200306[/ATTACH]Here is coin from my own collection so as to keep it numismatic. Let's see your coins of Sabina! [ATTACH=full]1200310[/ATTACH]Sabina, AD 117-137.Roman orichalcum sestertius, 22.51 g, 31.2 mm, 6 h.Rome, AD 132.Obv: SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, diademed and draped bust, right.Rev: IVNONI REGINAE, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter.Refs: RIC 1028; BMCRE 1869; Cohen 38; RCV 3934; UCR 500; Strack 86.[/QUOTE]