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A coin of the empress Theodora showing Pietas suckling a child Coin Type: Bronze AE3 of Theodora, Augusta 283-? CE.
Mint and Date: ?, 337-340 (posthumous commemorative)
Size and Weight: 14mm, 1.7g
Obverse: Draped bust right with braids circling her head.
(FL MAX THEO) - DORAE AVG
Reverse: Pietas standing facing, head right, holding a child in her left arm which reaches for the breast offered with right hand.
PIETAS ROMANA
Exergue: (off the flan)
Ref: RCV (1998) 3911
BW Ref: 006 030 068
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