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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 5249750, member: 44132&quot;][ATTACH=full]1218772[/ATTACH] </p><p>LIVIA</p><p>AE Dupondius</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; IVSTITIA, draped bust of Livia as Justitia right, wearing stephane</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG REST, around large SC</p><p>Restoration issue under Titus. </p><p>Rome, AD 80-81</p><p>9.9g, 27mm</p><p>Cohen 9, RIC II 424 (Titus), BMC 289 (Titus), Komnick 15</p><p>Modern stamp, 7 over 36 on obverse</p><p><br /></p><p>Livia Drusilla (Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA, LIVIA•AVGVSTA;[1] 30 January 59/58 BC – 28 September AD 29), also known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14, was the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar throughout his reign, as well as his adviser. She was the mother of the emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the emperor Caligula, grandmother of the emperor Claudius and the great-great-grandmother of the emperor Nero. </p><p><br /></p><p>Livia was a power unto her own throughout her life, but history paints a picture of a manipulative woman who would do whatever it takes to get her way.&nbsp; Tacitus and Cassius Dio wrote that rumors persisted that Augustus was poisoned by Livia. The most famous of these rumors was that Livia, unable to poison his food in the kitchens because Augustus insisted on only eating figs picked fresh from his garden, smeared each fruit with poison while still on the tree to pre-empt him.&nbsp; These same historians depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Tiberius’ decisions, and give as a reason for Tiberius&#039; retirement to Capri: his inability to endure his mother any longer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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