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Plautilla, overviewThere are five main types of portrait for Plautilla’s denarii at the Rome mint :
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
In the mean time there are seven different reverses :
1 - CONCORDIAE AETERNAE
2 - PROPAGO IMPERI
3 - CONCORDIA AVGG
4 - CONCORDIA FELIX
5 - PIETAS AVGG
6 – DIANA LVCIFERA
Not every combination exists, but some of the above reverses can be shared by several obverse portraits. Noticeable also is an evolution of the obverse legend, being PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE (a) in 202, and becoming PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA (b) soon after
You can see the evolution of this interesting coinage in my Plautilla's gallery.
Potator II
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Plautilla, DenariusLaodicea mint, AD 202
PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, draped bust right
CONCORDIAE, Concordia seated left holding patera and double cornucopia
3,71 gr,
Ref : RCV #7068
Ex Noble roman coinsPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - 0220Laodicea mint, AD 202
PLAVTILLA AVG, draped bust right
CONCORDIAE, Concordia seated left holding patera and double cornucopia
3,33 gr, 19 mm
Ref : RCV #7068, Cohen #8, Monnaies XXI #2831
Rare en cet etatPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - aA2 - *Rome mint, AD 202
PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, draped bust right, hair coiled in ridges and fastened in bun
PROPAGO IMPERI, Caracalla and Plautilla face to face, shaking hands
3.45 gr, 18 mm
Ref : RCV # 7073, Cohen # 21, RIC IV # 362
Ex CNG-from the J.S. Vogelaar collectionPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - aA3 - 0220Rome mint, AD 202
PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, draped bust right, hair coiled in ridges and fastened in bun
CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia standing left, holding patera and sceptre
3,43 gr, 20 mm
Ref : RIC # 269, RCV # --, Cohen # 2
See Künker auction 03/8/2004 # 2406, same obverse die
According to Curtisclay, the hairdo is similar to those seen on the early denari of Plautilla (Propago Imperi and Concordia Aeternae) before a change in style of the obverse of the Concordia emission
0240Potator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - aB3Rome mint, AD 202-205
PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE, draped bust right, with hair fasten in a bun
CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia standing left, holding patera and sceptre
3,43 gr
Ref : RCV -, Cohen #2
Ex bp Murphy collectionPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - bB4Rome mint
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right
CONCORDIA FELIX, Caracalla and Plautilla face to face, shaking hands
3.38 gr
Ref : RCV #7066 var, RSC # 12, RIC # 365b, BMC # 419, Hill # 584
Now in Septimus' collectionPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - bC5Rome mint
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right
PIETAS AVGG, Pietas standing, holding child
3.19 gr 19 mm
Ref : RCV #7072, Cohen #16
This combination of the third portrait of Plautilla (hair in vertical ridges and no bun but braids covering her neck) with the Pietas reverse is very rare. Usually this reverse is associated with the last portrait of hers, like on bE6 or bE7 specimens, and sometimes with the fourth one, like on bD5, as shown in my Plautilla's galleryPotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - bE4Rome mint
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right
CONCORDIA FELIX, Caracalla and Plautilla face to face, shaking hands
3.41 gr, 18 mm
Ref : RCV #7066 var, Cohen #12, RSC # 12, RIC-, BMC -, Hill –
I believe this type should be considered as transitionnal or an hybrid (as is the aA3) associating a 202 reverse type to a 204-205 bust typePotator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - bE6Rome mint, AD 204
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right
VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing left, leaning on shield, Cupid at her feet
3.4 gr
Ref : RCV # 7074, RIC IV # 369Potator II
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Plautilla, Denarius - bE7Rome mint, AD 205
PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, hair waved & drawn down on neck
DIANA LVCIFERA, Diana standing left, holding torch in both hands.
3.3 gr
Ref : RIC IV # 366, Cohen # 13, RCV #7070
See G&M auction # 170/2507, same dies
Ex. arizonarobin collectionPotator II
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Plautilla, Provincial - Caesaraea drachmCappadocia, Caesaraea - Eusebia), AD 205.
ΦΟΥΛΟΥΙ ΠΛΑΥ ΑΥ, draped bust right
ΜΗΤΡΟ ΚΑΙCΑ, Agalma of Mt. Argaeus with star. In ex., CΤΙΓ : regnal year 13 of Sept. Severus, 205 AD
2.69 g, 19mm
Ref : Sydenham -; SNG Copenhagen -; Sear 2775v.
Sydenham-Malloy, p. 152, no. 496b
cf. Lanz auction # 117/956
thanks to Curtis Clay for additionnal information
Potator II
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Plautilla, Provincial - Pautalia bronzeBronze minted in Pautalia, Thrace
PHOYL TTLAVTILLA CEBA, diademed and draped bust right
HTE CIKI KLAPOV OVATTI TTAUTALIAC, river god seated left
12,4 gr
Ref : Ruzicka, Pautalia # 771a, G&M #134/1849, same obverse die
Ex OptimusPotator II
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