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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Ephesos| > RP85856
Augustus and Livia, 16 January 27 B.C. - 19 August 14 A.D., Ephesos, Ionia,
|Ephesos|, |Augustus| |and| |Livia,| |16| |January| |27| |B.C.| |-| |19| |August| |14| |A.D.,| |Ephesos,| |Ionia,|, When Octavian and Livia met, both were already married, Livia already had a son, the future emperor Tiberius, and was pregnant with a second, Nero Claudius Drusus (also known as Drusus the Elder). Legend says that Octavian fell immediately in love with her. Octavian divorced Scribonia in 39 B.C., on the very day that she gave birth to his daughter Julia the Elder. Tiberius Claudius Nero was persuaded or forced by Octavian to divorce Livia. On 14 January, Livia's second son was born. Augustus and Livia married on 17 January, waiving the traditional waiting period. Tiberius Claudius Nero was present at the wedding, giving her in marriage "just as a father would." The importance of the patrician Claudii to Octavian's cause, and the political survival of the Claudii Nerones are probably more rational explanations for the tempestuous union. Nevertheless, Livia and Augustus remained married for the next 51 years. They had no children apart from a single miscarriage. Livia always enjoyed the status of privileged counselor to her husband, petitioning him on the behalf of others and influencing his policies, an unusual role for a Roman wife in a culture dominated by the paterfamilias.
RP85856. Bronze AE 21, RPC I 2585 (4 spec.); BMC Ionia p. 72, 199; SNG Tire 32; SNG Tübingen 2816; SNG Cop -; SNGvA -; SNG Munchen -, F, excellent centering, dark green patina with earthen highlighting, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight 8.012g, maximum diameter 21.1mm, die axis 0o, obverse jugate heads of Augustus and Livia; reverse stag right, quiver above, APXIΕPΕ-YΣ / AΣKΛAΣ / Ε-ΦΕ NI-KOΣT-PA/TOΣ (archiereus (priest) / Asklas / Ephesos / Nikostratos) in five lines divided across fields; scarce; SOLD




  






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