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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3203661, member: 75937&quot;]Lovely example, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ! Spes is probably the most frequently encountered reverse type on sestertii of Aelius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829693[/ATTACH]</p><p>Aelius, Caesar AD 136-138.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 27.19 g, 30.6 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 137.</p><p>Obv: L AELIVS CAESAR, bare head, right.</p><p>Rev: TR POT COS II, Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising skirt.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1055; BMCRE 1914; Cohen 56; RCV 3986; UCR 825.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also in the Antonine era, Spes appears on coins of Faustina II, who was once betrothed to Aelius&#039;s son, Lucius Verus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829694[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-176. </p><p>Roman AR Denarius, 3.44 gm, 16.6 mm.</p><p>Rome mint under Antoninus Pius, AD 154-157.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AVGVSTI PII FIL, Spes standing left, holding flower and raising skirt.</p><p>Refs: RIC 497; Sear 4702; BMC 1106.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any examples in my collection on coins from the Severan era, but I do have a couple from the tumultuous mid-to-late third century. Spes is perhaps the most common reverse type found on coins of Tetricus II, still in the stylized walking left, holding flower and hem of skirt pose seen on coins 200 years earlier:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829695[/ATTACH]</p><p>Tetricus II, Caesar AD 273-274</p><p>Roman Æ antoninianus, 3.51 g, 18.8 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Mainz or Trier, AD 273-4.</p><p>Obv: C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, radiate bust right.</p><p>Rev: SPES AVGG, Spes advancing left, holding flower and lifting skirt.</p><p>Refs: RIC 270; Cohen 88; Elmer 791; AGK 9a; Cunetio 2647; DaWitte 73; Hunter 11; RVC 11292.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829696[/ATTACH]</p><p>Claudius II, AD 268-270.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 18mm, 3.8g, 12h.</p><p>Milan, issue 1, officina 1, c. September 268 – mid 269.</p><p>Obv: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, Bust right, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum, seen from rear.</p><p>Ref: SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, holding flower in right hand and raising skirt with left hand; –/–//P.</p><p>Refs: RIC 168; Cohen 284; <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/26" rel="nofollow">MER/RIC temp 26</a>; RCV 11374; Normanby 1004; Hunter 26.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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