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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Julia Mamaea| > SH66879
Julia Mamaea, Augusta 13 March 222 - February or March 235 A.D.
|Julia| |Mamaea|, |Julia| |Mamaea,| |Augusta| |13| |March| |222| |-| |February| |or| |March| |235| |A.D.|, Vesta was originally a household spirit. Later she was personified as the goddess of the hearth and given the stature of her Greek equivalent, Hestia. In the temple of Vesta, her sacred flame was kept alive by Vestal Virgins. In 394, by order of the Christian emperor Theodosius I in his campaign to eliminate pagan practices in Rome, the fire of Vesta was extinguished.
SH66879. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 708, BMCRE VI 389, Cohen IV 83, Hunter III 33, SRCV II 8236, VF, green patina, well centered, Rome mint, weight 24.538g, maximum diameter 30.9mm, die axis 315o, 226 A.D.; obverse IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair in horizontal ridges, with looped plait at the back of neck; reverse VESTA, Vesta standing half-left, veiled head left, palladium in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across field; SOLD











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