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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2862978, member: 75937"]Hill (The Coinage of Septimius Severus and his family of the Mint of Rome A.D. 193-217, p. 8) has identified five different styles of bust for Plautilla from the mint at Rome. Similarly, Temeryazev & Makarenko (The Coinage of Roman Empresses, vol II, pp. 44-45) have identified five styles from the Rome mint and one from Laodicea. I have examples of all. Again, post whatever you feel is relevant! The earliest (AD 202), Hill type Ei/T&M type 2, depicts the empress as youthful, with hair in ridges plaited horizontally and with a large bun at the back of the head, off the neck: [ATTACH=full]682418[/ATTACH]RIC 361; BMCRE 401; RSC 10; RCV 7069; T&M 435; Hill 575A The second (AD 202), Hill type Eii/T&M type 3, features a similarly youthful bust, her hair with slanting plaits and a bun which is lower on the head but still above the neck: [ATTACH=full]682419[/ATTACH]RIC 363a; BMCRE 411; RSC 1; RCV 7065; T&M 421; Hill 583 & 585 A third type, also early (AD 202), Hill type Eii (var.)/T&M type 4, has the hair in similarly slanting plaits, but instead of a bun, the hair is coiled at the back of the neck: [ATTACH=full]682420[/ATTACH]RIC 365a; BMCRE 418; RSC 12; RCV 7066; T&M 433; Hill 584 & 586 Similar is the bust used at the Laodicea mint (AD 202), T&M type 1, which shows Plautilla with plaits coiled behind the head and barely on the neck: [ATTACH=full]682424[/ATTACH] A fifth type, used later in Caracalla's reign (ca AD 203), Hill type Li/T&M type 5, depicts her hair in waves, not plaits, and gathered into a small queue-knot behind the neck; her ear is exposed: [ATTACH=full]682425[/ATTACH]RIC 367; BMCRE 422; RSC 16; RCV 7072; T&M 430; Hill 607 & 608 The latest bust type (AD 204), Hill type Lii/T&M type 6, is similar, but her hair covers her ears: [ATTACH=full]682428[/ATTACH]RIC 369; BMCRE 429; RSC 25b; RCV 7074; T&M 437; Hill 661[/QUOTE]

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