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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Crispina| > WR75894
Crispina, Augusta 178 - 182 A.D.
|Crispina|, |Crispina,| |Augusta| |178| |-| |182| |A.D.|, Pudicitia, modesty and chastity, was for Romans the highest regarded female virtue. For an unmarried girl, pudicitia meant virginity. For a wife, it meant faithfulness and devotion to her husband. Romans loved the story of Arria, an ultimate example of Roman pudicitia. When the emperor Claudius ordered her husband Paetus to end his own life, he hesitated. Arria took his dagger and stabbed herself to set an example, saying, "Paetus, it doesn't hurt."
WR75894. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC III 670 (Commodus); Szaivert MIR 18, 16-6a; BMCRE IV 419 (Commodus); Cohen III 30; SRCV II, F, Rome mint, weight 22.695g, maximum diameter 29.0mm, die axis 180o, 178 - 182 A.D.; obverse CRISPINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, hair knotted in a bun in back; reverse PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left, right hand on breast, left hand at side, S - C across field; scarce; SOLD










OBVERSE LEGENDS

CRISPINAAVG
CRISPINAAVGIMPCOMMODIAVG
CRISPINAAVGVSTA


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