Herennia Etruscilla — Antoninianus, PVDICITIA AVG, Rome

Struck at Rome, AD 249–251, in the name of Herennia Etruscilla, Augusta and wife of Trajan Decius, under whose authority the issue was made. Her bust is diademed and draped, set on a crescent, the mark that identifies an empress's antoninianus the way the radiate crown identifies an emperor's.

PVDICITIA AVG, "the Modesty of the Augusta", frames Pudicitia veiled and seated left, drawing her veil with her right hand and holding a sceptre in her left: the personification of matronly virtue that the imperial house put forward for its women. On this coin the reverse is worn, the seated figure and the veil gesture readable in outline while the legend is largely gone; the obverse portrait and legend are clear.

Attribution: RIC IV 59bMint: RomeWeight: 3.61 gDiameter: 24 mmCatalogued in the NumisLens cabinet — NL-VXCSS-M61WZ

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