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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Julia Mamaea| > RS87239
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.|, Felix (Lucky) was a traditional epithet for Venus. Venus Felix was her cult title at Hadrian's temple to Venus Felix and Roma Aeterna on the Via Sacra. In dice-games, a popular pastime among Romans of all classes, the luckiest, best possible roll was known as "Venus."
RS87239. Silver denarius, RIC IV 351, RSC II 60, BMCRE III 189, SRCV II 8214, Hunter III - (p. lxxvi), Choice VF, excellent centering and strike, light toning, some luster, radiating flow lines, frosty areas, tiny edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 2.595g, maximum diameter 20.0mm, die axis 0o, c. 224 A.D.; obverse IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair in horizontal ridges, with looped plait at the back of neck; reverse VENERI FELICI, Venus standing facing, head right, long scepter vertical in right hand, Cupid seated in her extended left hand; SOLD










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