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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4554002, member: 85693&quot;]One of my favorite deities. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my only Julia Domna Pudicitia - worn, on a heart-shaped flan:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127635[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julia Domna&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(196-211 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left, veiled and right hand on breast; left arm at side.</p><p>RIC 576; RSC 168.</p><p>(2.97 grams / 18 x 16 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Julia Domna&#039;s sister, Julia Maesa, in a rather compromised sestertius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127632[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julia Maesa&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(Grandmother of Elagabalus)</b></p><p><b>(218-222 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>IVLIA MAESA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right / PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated right, holding scepter and drawing veil; S C in exergue.</p><p>RIC 420 (Elagabalus); Banti 8.</p><p>(16.64 grams / 29 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Pudicitia wasn&#039;t just for the lady coins.&nbsp; Here are some menfolk.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian with a standing Pudicitia.&nbsp; The artwork on this one is really nice, I think:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127630[/ATTACH]</p><p>Hadrian denarius - RIC 176d</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius as:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127634[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ As</b></p><p><b>(c. 145-147 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[ANT]ONINVS AVG PIVS PP, laureate head right / TR POT COS [III or IIII?] S C,</p><p>Pudicitia facing, looking left, raising right hand, holding veil with left hand.</p><p>RIC 702.</p><p>(10.31 grams / 26 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Another fella, Trajan Decius from Antioch:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127633[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Trajan Decius&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(249-251 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Antioch mint </b></p><p>IMP CMQ TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right Officina mark single dot below / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudictia seated left, drawing veil and holding a sceptre.</p><p>RIC 46b; Sear5 9382; RSC 98.</p><p>(3.13 grams / 22 x 19 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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