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A bronze coin of the empress Theodora showing Pietas suckling a child Coin Type: Bronze AE3 of Theodora, Augusta 283-? CE.
Mint and Date: Treveri, 337-340 (posthumous commemorative)
Size and Weight: 15mm, 1.44g
Obverse: FL MAX THEO-DORAE AVG
Draped bust right with braids circling her head.
Reverse: PIETAS ROMANA
Pietas standing facing, head right, holding a child in her left arm which reaches for the breast offered with right hand.
Exergue: •TRS•
Provenance: stigs-antiquities (eBay), December 2007.
Ref: RCV (1998) 3911; RIC VIII Trier 65
BW Ref: 011 036 119
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