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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8235908, member: 110226&quot;]There are so many notable women from antiquity, such as Faustina Senior and Faustina Junior, that it becomes a challenge to post just a few of their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are three with representative coins, and another that I wish had one.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first selection is Empress Livia Drusilla, who was arguably the power behind the throne of Augustus and later Tiberius.&nbsp; She possessed the qualities of political acumen combined with a degree of determination, some might call it ruthlessness, to help shape the course of early Imperial Roman history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Livia, 21-22 AD</p><p>AE dupondius</p><p>Obverse: SALVS AVGVSTA below draped bust of Livia as Salus right, hair in knot behind.</p><p>Reverse: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG TR POT XXIIII around large</p><p>SC. RIC 47.</p><p>13.4g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My second choice for a great woman of antiquity is Empress Theodora, the wife of Justinian I.&nbsp; She was to Justinian I what Livia was to Augustus.&nbsp; It is a pity that she never appeared on a Byzantine coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The famous mosaic mural of her, in the center, with her attendants, will have to suffice.&nbsp; Here, she has a gravitas and dignity befitting her place in history.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448877[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Number three is Empress Herennia Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius.&nbsp; She served as regent during the reign of her young son Hostilian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, 249-253,</p><p>BI Antoninianus</p><p>Rome</p><p>Obverse: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, Draped bust right on crescent, hair waved and tucked at back of neck, stephane in hair.</p><p>Reverse: PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia, veiled, standing left, drawing veil with right hand, scepter in left</p><p>RIC IV, Part III, 58b (Trajan Decius)</p><p>5.6 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448821[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fourth is Empress Julia Cornelia Salonina, wife of Emperor Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Salonina, 260-268 AD</p><p>BI Antoninianus</p><p>Rome</p><p>Obverse: SALONINA AVG - Draped bust right on crescent.</p><p>Reverse: FECVNDITAS AVG - Fecunditas standing left with hand over child left, holding cornucopiae, A in right field.</p><p>SR-3039 (88), RIC-VI-26</p><p>2.43 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448832[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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