AETERNITAS - Eternity, to whom the Romans paid divine honours, although neither temples nor altars were dedicated by them to her worship, is represented on coins of the imperial series, under the personification of a matronly woman, clothed in the stola; sometimes veiled, at other times without a veil, sometimes seated, sometimes standing, in various attitudes and with various emblems and attributes She makes her first monetal appearance under the reign of Vespasian. It is on gold and silver of that emperor that she stands near an altar, supporting in one outstretched hand the radiated head of the Sun, and in the other the crescented head of the Moon. Next she is seen on one of those first brass coins, which were struck A.D. 141, and following year, by order of the senate
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to be an attribute of, or prayed for (vota) as a blessing on, the Emperors. Thus in the famous inscription, published by Gruter, is read SOLI AETERNO LVNAE PRO AETERNITATE IMPERII ET SALVTE IMP CA ... SEPTIMII SEVERI &c.
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