Hi,
From my point of view, there are five main
portrait types for
Plautilla’s
denarii at the
Rome mint in the short period they were issued (from AD 202 to 205) :
A - With a draped
bust right, hair coiled in horizontal ridges and fastened in bun in high position. Her facial expression is juvenile
B - Hair being coiled in vertical ridges, with bun in low position.
Plautilla looks here more like a young beautiful woman
C - The third
bust shows a thinner
face of
Plautilla with hair in vertical ridges and no bun but braids covering her neck
D - The fourth
type has a similar appearance with the former, but the vertical ridges disappear, hair being plastered down,
still showing the right ear
E -
Plautilla appears with mid long hair plastered down and covering her ears
And also there are seven different reverses :
1 -
CONCORDIAE AETERNAE2 -
PROPAGO IMPERI3 -
CONCORDIA AVGG4 -
CONCORDIA FELIX5 -
PIETAS AVGG6 -
VENVS VICTRIX7 -
DIANA LVCIFERANoticeable also is an evolution of the
obverse legend, being PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE (a) in 202, and becoming PLAVTILLA
AVGVSTA (b) soon after.
Not every combination exists, but some of the above reverses can be shared by several
obverse portraits. This means that some combinations are rarer than others (one can find my conclusions about this in a study I published, either in the review OMNI and
HERE (in
french, I’m afraid)) describing the fourteen different
types known today. I’m proud to tell they are now all fourteen in my
collectionYou can see the evolution of this interesting coinage in this
gallery.
aA1
aA2
aA3
aB3
bB3
bB4
bC3
bC4
bC5
bD5
bE4
bE5
bE6
bE7