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Securitas

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SECVRIT PERPET DD NN
SECVRITAS AVGG
SECVRITAS P R
SECVRITAS PERPETVA
SECVRITAS PVBLICA
SECVRITAS REIPVB
SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE
SECVRITAS TEMPORVM


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     Securitas. -- Security, as a goddess worshipped
by the Romans, is delineated in a great variety
of ways on their imperial coins. She appears
for the most part under the form of a woman in
matronly costume; though in some few instances
she is but half clothed, having a veil thrown
over the lower extremities. Sometimes she is
quietly seated, as if perfectly at her ease and
having nothing to fear. That is to say, her right
or her left elbow rests on her chair, and the
hand supports her head, as in Nero. Or else
one of her arms is placed above the head; an
attitude which ancient artists regarded as characteristic of repose. She holds in one or other of
her hands either a sceptre, or a scipio, or the
hasta pura, or a cornucopia, or a patera, or a
globe. On some medals there is near her a
lighted altar; on others she stands leaning
against, or with her arm upon, a column or
cippus, having sometimes the legs crossed in a
tranquil, easy posture, carrying one of the above-
mentioned symbols, or otherwise holding before
her a branch or a crown of olive, or a palm
branch. The meaning of these various attitudes
and attributes is on the whole too evident to
require explanation. There are medals of nearly
all the emperors (with flagrant inappropriateness
to most of the reigns) from Otho and Vitellius to
Constans and Constantius jun., which have for the
type of their reverses this figure of Security, and
present for their legend the word SECVRITAS,
with the addition of the words, AVGVSTI, or
AVGVSTORVM (security of the emperor or of the
emperors); ORBIS (security of the world) ;
PVBLICA (public security) ; PERPETVA (perpetual
security) ; POPVLI ROMANI (security of the
Roman people) TEMPORVM (of the Times) ;
IMPERII (of the empire) SAECVLI (of the age) ;
REPVBLICAE (of the republic), etc.

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Securitas

See also -

SECVRIT ORBIS
SECVRIT PERPET DD NN
SECVRITAS AVGG
SECVRITAS P R
SECVRITAS PERPETVA
SECVRITAS PVBLICA
SECVRITAS REIPVB
SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE
SECVRITAS TEMPORVM


|Dictionary of Roman Coins|



Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate.
     Securitas. -- Security, as a goddess worshipped
by the Romans, is delineated in a great variety
of ways on their imperial coins. She appears
for the most part under the form of a woman in
matronly costume; though in some few instances
she is but half clothed, having a veil thrown
over the lower extremities. Sometimes she is
quietly seated, as if perfectly at her ease and
having nothing to fear. That is to say, her right
or her left elbow rests on her chair, and the
hand supports her head, as in Nero. Or else
one of her arms is placed above the head; an
attitude which ancient artists regarded as characteristic of repose. She holds in one or other of
her hands either a sceptre, or a scipio, or the
hasta pura, or a cornucopia, or a patera, or a
globe. On some medals there is near her a
lighted altar; on others she stands leaning
against, or with her arm upon, a column or
cippus, having sometimes the legs crossed in a
tranquil, easy posture, carrying one of the above-
mentioned symbols, or otherwise holding before
her a branch or a crown of olive, or a palm
branch. The meaning of these various attitudes
and attributes is on the whole too evident to
require explanation. There are medals of nearly
all the emperors (with flagrant inappropriateness
to most of the reigns) from Otho and Vitellius to
Constans and Constantius jun., which have for the
type of their reverses this figure of Security, and
present for their legend the word SECVRITAS,
with the addition of the words, AVGVSTI, or
AVGVSTORVM (security of the emperor or of the
emperors); ORBIS (security of the world) ;
PVBLICA (public security) ; PERPETVA (perpetual
security) ; POPVLI ROMANI (security of the
Roman people) TEMPORVM (of the Times) ;
IMPERII (of the empire) SAECVLI (of the age) ;
REPVBLICAE (of the republic), etc.

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