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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 8025486, member: 80783&quot;]Thank you all for showing your beautiful Denarii! I must admit that I don&#039;t have a single Denarius left in my collection. There is certainly a greater variety of designs available on the silver coinage of Julia Paula than on the Sestertii. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I really like your first specimen with the couple clasping hands! That reverse type is the first emission for each consort (dated to 219 by Sear, while he dates the rest of Paula´s coinage to 220) and extremely rare for Sestertii of Julia Paula (I only found four specimens from a single obverse die) and Aquilia Severa (seemingly unique), while it is the exclusive type for Annia Faustina (proving that her marriage cannot have lasted much longer than the wedding ceremony itself).</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know how the VENVS GENETRIX reverse features in this scheme, as it is exclusive to Denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>One can also identify a progression of different hairstyles on the coins of Julia Paula and I noticed that while the earliest three Sestertius dies of Julia Paula feature her bare headed (like seemingly all Denarii do), all later Sestertii show her wearing a stephane.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Sestertius of Aquilia Severa:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391055[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG – diademed and draped bust right</p><p>CONCORDIA AVG – Concordia standing left, sacrificing over lighted altar and holding double cornucopiae, star in right field</p><p>Sestertius, Rome mint, early 221 A.D.</p><p>18.92 g / 30,0 mm / 12 h</p><p>RIC IV 390 (Elagabalus), pl. VII.3 (same reverse die); Cohen 4 (same dies); BMCRE 433, plate 96.8 (same obverse die), Banti 4 (same obverse die), Sear RCV II, 7681 (same dies), Hunter 3, plate 41 (same dies)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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