Rustia


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Rustia, a family scarcely known in the time of the republic. Its coins (which in silver are not very rare, but in gold rarissimi) exhibit but two varieties, one of which offers on one side two female busts (one of them wearing a helmet), placed on a flattened cippus, ornamented on each side with a ram's head, with the epigraph Q. RVSTIVS. FORTVNAE. ANTIAT.  The obverse of the denarius had CAESARI. AVGVSTO. EX. S. C., and an altar, inscribed FOR. RE.  See FORTVNAE ANTIAT.  An almost similiar type accompanies SORS, on a coin of the Plaetoria family. The reverse applies to Angustus, and shows that this denarius was struck V.C. 735.

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