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Latin: Age of Good Fortune.
SAECVLI FELICITAS.-- On a third brass of Julia Domna, this legend appears with the type of a female figure, standing with a child on her arm, and her left foot on a galley.-- Akerman. SAECVLI FELICITAS.-- Accompanying this legend there is a rare and curious type, from the mint of Severus, given among the second brass of the Mus. Christinae, and also from a gold coin in the Imperial Greek Cabinet, published by Andrew Morell, in his Specimen Rei Numariae. The inscription of the obverse round the laureate head of the emperor is-- SEVERVS PIVS AVG.; and on the reverse is read COnSul III. Pater Patriae. SAECVLI FELICITAS. In the field of the coin stands a female figure, clothed in the stola, holding on her left arm a cornucopiae filled with grain and fruit, and in her left a dish or patera, which she extends before her over the heads of two smaller figures (apparently children), as if in the act of showering its contents over them : there are three other little figures close behind her, lifting their faces and hands up towards this personification of the Felicity of the Age. The particular occasion on which this singular medals was struck is but matter of conjecture.-- Havercamp quotes the commentary of Morell, who regards the medal as referring to the great and munificent care taken by Severus in furnishing an abundance of provisions to the Roman people. On this subject he cites the authority of Spanheim (Biography of Severus, c. xxiii.) to the effect, that this emperor "bequeathed for public distribution so great a number of measures of corn as would supply every day, for seven years, 75,000 bushels ; and that he likewise left by his dying will for the same purpose a quantity of oil sufficient for the consumption, during five years, not only of the city of Rome, but even of all Italy!"-- Mionnet and Akerman both include this among the rare reverses. It is not noticed in Eckhel. View whole page from the Dictionary Of Roman Coins |