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Julia Titi, Augusta c. 79 - 89 A.D.
Ceres' known mythology is indistinguishable from Demeter's. Her virgin daughter Proserpina (Persephone) was abducted by Hades to be his wife in the underworld. Ceres searched for her endlessly lighting her way through the earth with torches. While Ceres (Demeter) searched, she was preoccupied with her loss and her grief. The seasons halted; living things ceased their growth, then began to die. Some say that in her anger she laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, and the land to become desolate. Faced with the extinction of all life on earth, Zeus sent his messenger Hermes to the underworld to bring Proserpina back. However, because she had eaten while in the underworld, Hades had a claim on her. Therefore, it was decreed that she would spend four months each year in the underworld. During these months Ceres grieves for her daughter's absence, withdrawing her gifts from the world, creating winter. Proserpina's return brings the spring.RB92404. Orichalcum dupondius, RIC II p. 222, 391 (R2); Hunter p. 275, 3; BMCRE II T253; Cohen I 2; BnF III T264; SRCV I 2615, F/aF, well centered, nice portrait for the grade, bumps, scratches, light corrosion, Rome mint, weight 9.732g, maximum diameter 27.5mm, die axis 180o, struck under Titus, 80 - 81 A.D.; obverse IVLIA IMP T AVG F AVGVSTA, draped bust right, hair in bun in back at neck; reverse CERES AVGVST, Ceres standing slightly left, head left, hold stalks of grain downward in right hand, long torch in left hand, S - C flanking across field below center; from the Errett Bishop Collection; very rare; SOLD
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