I decided to divest some duplicates (RR Denarii) from my my collection - a move I may regret as summer auctions perhaps a not the best time to sell while everyone is on vacation: https://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=61534&collection=17&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0 My favorite in the list above is this one issued in 42 BC.: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/venus-the-purifier Crawford notes that the story from Pliny also suggests a resolution of differences and the shrine "may have been a symbol of civil peace" (Pliny, Natural History, 15.36) and that the star, crescent and Sol on the types of this issue all could support the "belief in the imminence of a new age" "There were myrtles growing on the site now occupied by Rome, at the time of its foundation; for a tradition exists to the effect that the Romans and the Sabines, after they had intended fighting, on account of the virgins who had been ravished by the former, purified themselves, first laying down their arms, with sprigs of myrtle, on the very same spot which is now occupied by the statues of Venus Cluacina; for in the ancient language "cluere" means to purify." -Pliny, Natural History, 15.36 Celebrating the Roman sewer (Cloaca Maxima) and featuring The Shrine of Venus Cloacina. O Cloacine! thou Goddess heavenly bright, Pregnant with ease, profuse with soft delight! Without thine aid divine mankind were curst; All human kind, without, --- must starve or burst. Cloacina triumphant, poem citing Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Cloacina, 1782
