| Livia, Wife of Augustus and Mother of Tiberius |  |
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|   | The portrait of this coin has been traditionally described as depicting Livia, based on Cohen's catalog. Even if as early as 1880 A. Colson was proposing that the portrait is actually Livilla, Drusus' wife, it was not in time for Cohen to consider it.
The portrait of Pietas alone is paired with the reverse naming Drusus. Livilla was believed to have shown piety over the sickness and death of her husband, Drusus. (Later it would be shown that she had poisoned him).
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| RP41461. Orichalcum dupondius, SRCV I 1741, RIC I Tiberius 43, F, weight 12.934 g, maximum diameter 29.8 mm, die axis 180o, Rome mint, 23 A.D.; obverse PIETAS, veiled, draped bust of Livia or Livilla as Pietas right; reverse DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F TR POT ITER, legend around large S C; $180.00 (€149.40) |
| Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Sardis, Lydia |  | |
| RP41396. Bronze AE 19, RPC I 2991, SNG Cop 515, SNG München 505, gF, weight 4.790 g, maximum diameter 18.5 mm, die axis 0o, Sardis mint, obverse SEBASTOS KAISAREWN SARDIANWN, Tiberius, togate, standing left, raising kneeling Tyche of Sardis; reverse SEBASTH IOULIOS KLEWN KAI MEMNWN, Livia seated right, scepter in right, ears of grain in left; $125.00 (€103.75) |
| Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Thessalonica, Macedonia, Livia Reverse |  | |
| RP38577. Leaded bronze AE 22, RPC I 1570, aVF, weight 8.923 g, maximum diameter 22.2 mm, die axis 225o, Thessalonica mint, obverse TI KAISAR, laureate head right; reverse SEBASTH QESSALONIKEWN, veiled bust of Livia right; $90.00 (€74.70) |
| Tiberius and Livia, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Smyrna, Ionia |  | Struck under Hieronymus and Petronius as proconsuls. |
| RP42426. Bronze AE 22, RPC I 2469, gF, encrustations, weight 5.859 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 0o, Smyrna mint, obverse CEBACTH CYNKLHTOCY ZMYPNAIWN IEPWNYMOC, confronted draped busts of Senate and Livia; reverse CEBACTOC TIBEPIOC EPI PETRWNIOU, tetrastyle temple enclosing statue of Tiberius as pontifex; $75.00 (€62.25) |
| Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Thessalonica, Macedonia, Livia Reverse |  | Very strange but interesting colors, which we cannot explain. |
| RP38865. Leaded bronze AE 22, RPC I 1567, aF, weight 8.577 g, maximum diameter 20.4 mm, die axis 0o, Thessalonica mint, c. 22 - 23 A.D., possibly later; obverse TI KAISAR SEBASTOS (or similar), bare head right; reverse SEBASTH QESSALONOKEWN (or similar), laureate bust of Livia right; $60.00 (€49.80) |
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