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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Personifications| ▸ |Abundance||View Options:   | | | Abundantia to the Romans, Euthenia to the Greeks, personified abundance or plenty. Her attributes are stalks of grain and the cornucopia. She can be standing or seated and is often shown emptying a cornucopia.. |
Victory or Nike is seen with wings in most statues and paintings, with one of the most famous being the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Most other winged deities in the Greek pantheon had shed their wings by Classical times. Nike is the goddess of strength, speed, and victory. Nike was a very close acquaintance of Athena and is thought to have stood in Athena's outstretched hand in the statue of Athena located in the Parthenon. Victory or Nike is also one of the most commonly portrayed figures on Greek and Roman coins.RS113672. Silver denarius, Woytek 95a, RSC II 237, BnF IV 118 , RIC II 54, BMCRE III 98, Strack I 44, Hunter II -, SRCV II -, Choice aVF, flow lines, small scratches, small edge cracks, weight 3.308 g, maximum diameter 19.0 mm, die axis 180o, Rome mint, 101 - 102 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head right; reverse P M TR P COS IIII P P (Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia Potestas, Consul Quartum, Pater Patre), Abundantia-Securitas seated left on crossed cornucopias, scepter in right hand; ex Stack's Bowers auction August 2023, lot 53487 (part of); ex York Coins; $140.00 (€131.60)
Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D.
Abundantia, her Greek name is Euthenia, stands for abundance or plenty. Abundantia resembles Annona. But Annona was limited to the grain supply for the current year, whereas Abundantia was a prodigal distributor of all kinds of things. Her attributes are stalks of grain and the cornucopia. Clothed in a long robe, and wearing a veil, she can be seated or standing and is sometimes shown emptying a cornucopia.RS113124. Silver denarius, Woytek 18a, BnF IV 11, RIC II 11, BMCRE III 9, RSC II 301, Hunter II 4, Strack I 15, SRCV III -, Choice aVF, well centered, flow lines, light marks, weight 3.123 g, maximum diameter 19.2 mm, die axis 180o, Rome mint, Feb 98 - autumn 99 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head right; reverse PONT MAX TR POT COS II (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power, consul for the 2nd time), Abundantia (or Justitia?) seated left on chair formed from two crossed cornucopia, short scepter in right, left elbow rests on back of chair, fold of drapery over lap; $120.00 (€112.80)
Roman Egypt, c. 1st - 3rd Century A.D.
According to Milne, lead tesserae served as local small change in Egypt during the first to the third century A.D.
Euthenia is the personification of abundance or plenty. To the Romans she was Abundantia. Her attributes are heads of grain and the cornucopia. She can be seated or standing and is sometimes shown emptying a cornucopia.
In Denise Wilding's unpublished 2020 thesis, Tokens and communities in the Roman provinces: an exploration of Egypt, Gaul and Britain, she describes an Egyptian tessera similar to our piece with the date LZ in the exergue, found in an ancient shipwreck off the Carmel coast at Haifa (Israel). According to her source, an article published in ‘Atiqot 63 (2010) by Ya‘akov Meshorer, the wreck "contained a hoard of 162 coins," comprising "68 denarii, along with three [silver] provincial coins, three Alexandrian billon, 85 bronze coins and three [lead] tokens." Meshorer dated the coins within the period 20 B.C - A.D. 235. For Wilding, the presence of the tesserae (2 Egyptian and a 4th century B.C. Athenian[!]) was hard to interpret, especially the Athenian token, which would already have been ancient at the time of the shipwreck. However, it should be noted that throughout history, shipping vessels needed ballast onboard when there was not enough cargo, for stability. Oftentimes, such ballast would consist of nothing more than large amounts of dirt likely procured at different ports. Depending on the source, the soil could be littered with a wide variety of discarded or lost items, including coins and tokens.RX114008. Lead tessera, Emmett 4325.6 (R5), cf. Milne 5397 - 5400 (diff. years, in ex.), Dattari-Savio 11623 (LB, in ex.), Weiser -, F, well centered, holed, with attractive splashes of yellow deposits and/or oxides across fields and in hole, weight 3.796 g, maximum diameter 18.5 mm, die axis 270o, uncertain Egyptian mint, c. 1st - 3rd century A.D; obverse Nilus reclining left, holding palm frond in his right hand and cornucopia in his left; to left, drooping lotus flower; reverse Euthenia reclining left, holding three grain ears in her right hand and cornucopia in her left, pomegranate or child's head(?) above right arm; to left, Genius (or another child) standing right (mostly obstructed by hole), raising their right hand and holding staff over left shoulder, Lς (year 6 of an uncertain era) upper left; very rare; $110.00 (€103.40) ON RESERVE
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