Roman Empresses

Roman Empresses

With Octavia, the sister of the first emperor Augustus, begins the series of mintmistresses of Rome. As the first female Roman, she received the privilege of coinage with her portrait - as a gift from her brother to her wedding with Marc Antony. A series of cistophores from Ephesus in Asia Minor shows the bust of the bride on the reverse. Agrippina Minor, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, was the first to have unrestricted coinage and coined aureii and denarii not only with their name and portrait, but also with her title: Augusta. Most empresses of the early Imperial era, however, coined bronze coins.


The Augustae of the 2nd and early 3rd cent. turn out to be self- and power-conscious coin mistresses compared to their predecessors. Thus, Faustina Minor, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, already had the right to mint coins when her husband was not even an emperor. And the ladies of the Severan dynasty - especially Iulia Domna, Iulia Soaemias and Iulia Maesa - left behind a rich coinage, which announces the imperial authority and the elite sense of ethos of their minting mistresses. And that although at least Soemias and Maesa were never empresses in the narrower sense (meaning wives of emperors).


In late antiquity, fewer coins are made with a portrait of the noble ladies, probably because they were not of noble origin. They did "only" reach the throne by the military skill of their spouses. The women of the soldier emperors - like Salonina, the wife of Gallienus - appear mostly on antoniniani with their portrait in a crescent moon. After Constantine the Great regains control of the Roman Empire, the women of the imperial family, like Helena, the mother of Constantine, or Aelia Flacilla, the wife of Theodosius I, appear mostly on the small bronze folles. But their portraits also adorn the front of the new currency: the golden solidus.


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Product no.: 9870029

Roman Empire, Faustina I, +141, AR Denar

Obv.: Drap. bust r.

Rev.: Iuno standing left

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Product no.: 302031

Roman Empire, Herennia Cupressenia Etruscilla, +251, AR Antoninianus

Obv.: Drap. bust r.

Rev.: Pudicitia standing left

 

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Product no.: 9870048

Roman Empire, Faustina II, +175, AR Denarius

Obv.: Drap. bust r.

Rev.: Concordia seated left

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Product no.: 9870052

Roman Empire, Julia Domna, +218, AR Denarius

Obv.: Drap. bust r.

Rev.: Diana standing left

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Product no.: 9870085

Roman Empire, Helena, +330, AE Follis

Obv.Drap. bust r.

Rev.Of varying types

59.00 *

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Product no.: 279315

Roman Empire, Faustina I, +141, AE As

Drap. bust r.

Rv.Big altar with door in front, on top flame

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Product no.: 58734

Römisches Reich, Faustina I., +141, AE Sesterz

Drap. Büste r.

Rv.Standing Juno l. with sceptre and patera

119.00 *

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Product no.: 404071

Roman Empire, Julia Paula, 219-220, AE Sestertius (218/220)

Obv.Bust with diadem r.

Rev.Concordia with cornucopiae and patera seated l.

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Product no.: 2011

Roman Empire, Sabina, +137, AR Denarius (134)

Obv.Drap. bust with diadem

Rev.Concordia standing l., leaning on column

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Product no.: 9870058

Roman Empire, Julia Mamaea, +235, AR Denarius

Obv.Drap. bust r.

Rev.Of varying types

88.00 *

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Product no.: 3450

Roman Empire, Crispina, +183, AR Denarius (180)

Obv.Drap. bust

Rev.Hilaritas standing l., holding long palm and cornucopiae

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Product no.: 9870030

Roman Empire, Salonina, +268, AR Antoninianus

Obv.Drap. bust r.

Rev.Of varying types

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Product no.: 58947

Roman Empire, Julia Soaemias, +222, AR Denarius

Obv.Drap. bust r.

Rev.Venus Caelestis with apple and sceptre, besides star

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Product no.: 314439

Roman Empire, Julia Domna, 170-217, AR Denarius, 196-211, Rome

Drap.bust r.

Rv.Hilaritas standing l., holding long palm and sceptre

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Product no.: 383180

Roman Empire, Julia Soaemias, +222, AR Denarius

Barbaric imitation

Obv.Drap. bust r.

Rev.Vesta enthroned l.

121.00 *

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Product no.: 383236

Roman Empire, Julia Domna, 170-217, AR Denarius, 211, Rome

Drap.bust r.

Rv.Seated Julia Domna l.

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Product no.: 390470

Roman Empire, Fausta, 307-326, AE Follis (326)

Obv. Drap. bust r.

Rev. Spes with two children in arms

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Product no.: 334332

Roman Empire, Helena, +330, AE Follis

Obv. Drap. bust r.

Rev. Stg. Securitas l., holding branch

95.00 *

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Product no.: 58963

Roman Empire, Julia Maesa, +226, AR Denarius

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Rev.Felicitas standing l. holding long caduceus

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Product no.: 2291

Roman Empire, Julia Soaemias, +222, AR Denarius

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Rev.Venus, diad., seated l., holding apple and sceptre, at her feet, child

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