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Liberalitas
Philipp I Arabs 244 - 249
AR - Antoninian, 5.4g, 23mm
       Rome AD 244-247
obv. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG
        bust draped and cuirassed, radiate head r.
rev. LIBERALITAS AVGG II
       Liberalitas standing l., holding abacus and cornucopiae
RIC IV/3, 38(b); C.87
nice EF

LIBERALITAS, liberality, the personification of generosity.
The so-called ABACUS is a misattribution! Really it is a kind of shovel with depressions on its surface, designed to pick up from a bag the correct number of coins when a distribution of money was being made, the 'largitio', largesse; here the second largesse of the emperor.

Liberalitas

Philipp I Arabs 244 - 249
AR - Antoninian, 5.4g, 23mm
Rome AD 244-247
obv. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG
bust draped and cuirassed, radiate head r.
rev. LIBERALITAS AVGG II
Liberalitas standing l., holding abacus and cornucopiae
RIC IV/3, 38(b); C.87
nice EF

LIBERALITAS, liberality, the personification of generosity.
The so-called ABACUS is a misattribution! Really it is a kind of shovel with depressions on its surface, designed to pick up from a bag the correct number of coins when a distribution of money was being made, the 'largitio', largesse; here the second largesse of the emperor.

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Album name:Jochen / The Pantheon - Gods, Goddesses and Personifications
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Noah   [Jan 30, 2011 at 10:46 PM]
good strong portrait and lovely Liberalitas reverse

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