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A silver antoninianus of the empress Herennia Etruscilla with a reverse showing Pudicity Coin Type: Silver antoninianus of Herennia Etruscilla, 249-251 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 251-251 CE.
Size and Weight: 20mm x 22mm, 4.2g
Obverse: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG
Diademed, draped bust right, resting on a crescent.
Reverse: PVDICITIA AVG
Pudicitia standing facing, head left, holding transverse sceptre in left hand and pulling out veil from her face with right hand.
Ref: RCV (2005) 9494 var; RIC IV Trajan Decius 58(b).
BW Ref: 003 027 039
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Note: RCV 9494 gives Herennia's hair as "ridged, in waves" but on this coin it is clearly "carried up the back of the head in a plait." RIC IV 58 does not make this distinction.

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