Browsing Roman Imperial Coins of Julia Maesa

Julia Maesa, grandmother of Elagabalus. AD 218-222. <br>[RIC 255]
Julia Maesa, Grandmother of Elagabalus.
[RIC 255]

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RIC 249
Sear5 7749
Julia Maesa Denarius. 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / FECVNDITAS AVG, Fecunditas standing left, extending her hand over a child and holding cornucopiae. RSC 8.(One example)
RIC 254
Sear5 7750
Julia Maesa Denarius. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and sceptre. RSC 16.(One example)
RIC 254
Limes
Julia Maesa AE Limes denarius. Military mint on the Danube border, AD 218-219. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right, in stephane / IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and sceptre.TextImage
RIC 255Julia Maesa AV Aureus. Eastern mint, struck under Elagabalus, AD 218-219. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right, in stephane / IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and sceptre, peacock at her feet. Cohen 19, Calicó 3049.TextImage
RIC 256
Sear5 7751
Julia Maesa Denarius. Antioch mint, 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right, wearing diadem / IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and sceptre; peacock at feet left. RSC 21. TextImage
RIC 256
RSC 20a
Julia Maesa Denarius. Antioch mint, 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and sceptre; peacock at feet left. RSC 20a. TextImage
RIC 261Julia Maesa, Rome mint, AR denarius, IVLIA MAESA AVG, Draped bust right, clasp at nape. / LAETITIA PVBL, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath in right hand and rudder on a globe in left hand behind.TextImage
RIC 263
Sear5 7754
Julia Maesa AR Denarius. 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / PIET-AS AVG, Pietas standing half-left, holding patera over altar and incense box. RSC 29.TextImage
RIC 264
Sear5 7747
Julia Maesa AR Antoninianus. 218-219 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, resting on crescent / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, holding patera over altar and box of incense. RSC 30.TextImage
RIC 266
Sear5 7755
Julia Maesa Denarius. 218-222 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, raising both hands up, lighted altar to left.TextImage
RIC 268
Sear5 7756
Julia Maesa Denarius. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left, raising veil and holding sceptre. RSC 36.TextImage
RIC 271
star right
Sear5 7757
Julia Maesa Denarius. 220-222 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left by altar, holding patera and caduceus, star in right field. RIC 271; RSC 45; Sear 7757.TextImage
RIC 271 (2)
star right
Sear5 7757
Julia Maesa Denarius. 220-222 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left by altar, holding patera and caduceus, star in right field. RIC 271; RSC 45; Sear 7757. (Different type of altar than the coin above)TextImage
RIC 272JULIA MAESA Denarius. Diademed and draped bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left by altar, holding patera and caduceus, star in left field. RSC 45b. TextImage
RIC 273
Sear5 7761
Julia Maesa AR Quinarius. 220-221 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, bust draped right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, sacrificing from patera in right hand over lighted altar at feet, and holding long caduceus in left hand; star in left field. RSC 46. TextImage
RIC 276Julia Maesa Denarius. IVLIA MAESA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / VESTA, Vesta standing left with palladium and sceptre. RSC 53.TextImage
RIC 362Julia Mamaea denarius. Draped bust right / Vesta standing left, holding patera and sceptre. RSC 85.TextImage
RIC 378
Sear5 8186
Diva Julia Maesa Denarius. 225 AD. DIVA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / CONSECRATIO, Maesa, veiled and holding sceptre, seated left on peacock flying upward to the right. RSC 3.(2 examples)
RIC 413Julia Maesa, AE As, 25 mm, 9.47 gr. 218-219 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / IVNO S-C, Juno, veiled, standing left, holding patera and sceptre. RIC 413; Cohen 17.TextImage
RIC 414
Sear5 7763
Julia Maesa AE Sestertius. 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, right hand extended over altar, holding box of perfume in left. Cohen 31.(One example)
RIC 415
Sear5 7768
Julia Maesa AE Dupondius. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / PIETAS AVG S-C, Pietas standing left, sacrificing over altar and holding box of perfumes.(2 examples)
RIC 420
Sear5 7764
Julia Maesa AE Sestertius. IVLIA MAESA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / PVDICITIA S-C, Pudicitia seated left, holding sceptre. Cohen 42.(One example)
RIC 421
Sear5 7765
Julia Maesa AE Sestertius. 220-222 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS S-C, Felicitas standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding long caduceus, star to right. Cohen 47.(2 examples)
RIC 422Julia Maesa AE Sestertius. 220-222 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS S-C, Felicitas standing left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar to left and holding long caduceus; star to right. Cohen 49.TextImage
RIC 712Julia Maesa, AE Sestertius. DIVA MAESA–AVGVSTA Veiled and draped bust right / CONSECRATIO, Three-tiered pyre placed on draped and festooned base; SC in exergue. C 6 var. BMC 218. RIC 712.TextImage
RIC 714
Sear5 8188
Diva Julia Maesa AE Sestertius. Struck by Severus Alexander, 224/5 AD. DIVA MAESA AVGVSTA, veiled and draped bust right / CONSECRATIO AVG S-C, Julia Maesa reclining on peacock flying right, cloak billowing around, holding sceptre. Cohen 4.(One example)
PROVINCIAL COINAGE
Acrasus
GRPC Lydia 80
Julia Maesa. AE17 of Acrasus, Lydia. 218-220. 3.44 gr. MAICA, draped bust right / AKΡACIΩTΩN, Tyche standing left, kalathos on head, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopiae in left. GRPC Lydia 80.TextImage
Adramytion
Fritze 154
Julia Maesa, AE19 of Adramytion, Mysia. AD 218-225. 2.67 g. IOYΛIA MAICA, draped bust right / AΔΡAMYTHNΩN, Dionysus wearing short chiton, standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos. Fritze Mysien 154-155; Stauber 225; Lindgren I 208; Mionnet Supp V, 36; Bernhart Dionysos 349.TextImage
Amastris
RecGen 158
Julia Maesa, AE32 of Amastris, Paphlagonia. AD 218-223. IOYΛIAN MAICAN CEBAC, draped bust right, one hand holding poppy before her. / AMACTΡIANΩN, quadriga of horses left, driven by Sev. Alexander, holding sceptre. RecGen 158; Prowe (1913), 11 (this coin).TextImage
Amphipolis
Moushmov 6119
Julia Maesa, Amphipolis, Macedonia. AE23. IOY MAICA AYΓOC, draped bust right / AMΦIΠOΛEITΩN, Tyche seated left holding patera, fish below. BMC 132; Moushmov 6119.TextImage
Antipatris
Righetti VI 1671
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Antipatris, Samaria, Palestine. AD 218-222. 7.85 g. IOYΛIA MAICA, draped bust right. / ANTIΠ, river-god Yarkon reclining left, holding reed in left hand with left arm resting on overturned urn, and extending right hand towards a fish swimming towards him. A stream below in which two more fish are swimming. Righetti VI, 1671; Meshorer, CC 149; Meshorer (2013) Antipatris 8; Mansfield Antipatris 24.TextImage
Ariassos
WWxls 40218
Julia Maesa, AE25 of Ariassos, Pisidia. AD 218-225. 5.74 g. IOYΛIA MAECA CEBA, draped bust right. / AΡIACCEΩN, distyle temple with eagle in pediment and cult image of Artemis Pergaea standing front within. Unpublished. WWxls 40218. Naville 51, 199.TextImage
Caesarea
Ganschow 717
Julia Maesa, AE34 of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Dated year 218-219. 24.1 g. IOYLIA MAICA CEBACTH, draped bust right. / MHTΡOΠOΛ KAICAΡIAC NEΩKOΡOY ET B, Mount Argaeus with a figure on each of the three tips, all on a tetrastyle temple front, baetyl or prize urn to left and right. Ganschow 717; RPC VI 6656 and 6660.TextImage
Cassandrea
Moushmov 6331
Julia Maesa AE20 of Cassandreia. IVLIA MAESA AVG (S retrograde), draped bust right / COL IVL AVG CASSA (S retrograde), Artemis(?) standing facing, head right, holding two long torches(?).TextImage
Cidramus
BMC 9
Julia Maesa, AE21 of Cidramus, Caria. AD 218-223. IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right. / KIΔΡAMHNΩN, Dionysos, wearing long robe, standing left, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos, leaning on column, panther at foot left. BMC 9; SNG von Aulock 2590; Kurth Dionysos 1248.TextImage
Cidramus
SNG vA 2591
Julia Maesa, AE22 of Cidramus, Caria, AD 218-222. 5.97 g. IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right. / KIΔΡAMHNΩN, Mên standing left, crescent on shoulders, right foot on bucranium, holding pine-cone and sceptre. BMC 10; Waddington 4941; SNG von Aulock 2591; Robert "Villes", 13; Lane p. 49; Righetti Sale III, 436.TextImage
Colbasa
Burstein 890
Lindgren I, 1081 corr.
Julia Maesa, AE15 of Colbasa, Pisidia. AD 218-222. 1.41 g. IOYΛIA MAICA, draped bust right. / KOΛBAC, draped bust of Mên right, on crescent. Burstein 890; Lindgren I, 1081 corr. (misread as Aspendos, this coin).TextImage
Dionysopolis
Moesia

Varbanov 496
Julia Maesa AE24 of Dionysopolis, Moesia. 218-222 AD. IOVΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right / ΔIONYCOΠOΛEITΩN, Demeter standing left, holding two corn-ears and long torch, Gamma in right field. Varbanov 496 (this coin); Moushmov 100; AMNG 379 var.TextImage
Dionysopolis
Phrygia

BMC 27
Julia Maesa, AE22 of Dionysopolis, Phrygia. E IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right. / ΔIONYΣOΠOΛEITΩN around, TO O in fields, cult image of Artemis Ephesia standing front, with supports. BMC 27; Aulock Phrygia II 160-164; Waddington 5943.TextImage
Dioshieron
GRPC Lydia 95
Julia Maesa. AE30 of Dioshieron, Lydia. 218-224. Magistrate M. Aurelius Artema... Cornelianus. IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right / EΠI M AYΡ AΡTEMA KOΡNHΛIANOY ΔIOCIEΡEITΩN, Zeus seated left, holding patera and sceptre. GRPC Lydia 95, otherwise unpublished.TextImage
Etenna
Aulock Pisid. II, 575
Julia Maesa, AE36 of Etenna, Pisidia. AD 218-223. IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right. / ETENNEΩN, Tyche sitting right on a cista mystica with a second cista before her. Aulock Pisidien II 575-577; Fontana 12 in RIN 1966; RPC 6011; Rauch 23 in Berliner Blätter.TextImage
Flaviopolis
SNG Lev upp 366
Julia Maesa AE 28mm of Flaviopolis, Cilicia. Dated local year 148 = AD 220-221. Draped bust right / Herakles standing right, leaning on club and holding lionskin and apples; HMP (date) in legend. TextImage
Germe
SNG Cop 143
Julia Maesa, AE25 of Germe, Mysia. AD 218-223. 7.23 g. I MAICA CEBACTH, draped bust right / ΓERMHNΩN, two draped female figures, standing facing each other, the one on the left pouring out a jug and the one on the right resting her hand on a jug on a low column; amphora on ground between them. SNG Cop 143.TextImage
Gordus-Julia
Righetti Coll. 9673
Julia Maesa, AE27 of Gordus-Julia, Lydia. 218-225 AD. 10.58 gr. Magistrate Ay. Julianos. IOVΛIA MAICA AVΓ, draped bust right / EΠ AY IOYΛIANOY B AΡ A IOY ΓOΡΔHNΩN around and across fields, Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre. Righetti Coll., 9673; GRPC Lydia 96.TextImage
Isinda
Aulock Pisidia 829f
Julia Maesa AE25 of Isinda, Pisidia. Dated Year 4 = 221-222 AD. IOYΛIA MAECAM CE, draped bust right / ICIN-ΔEΩN above and beneath Tyche on the left, standing front, holding rudder and cornucopiae, looking right at Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus; date ET Δ in lower centre. Aulock Pisidien I, 829f (same dies) and 830-832; Loebbecke 36 in ZfN 1883.TextImage
Kyzikos
Mionnet II 227
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Kyzikos, Mysia. AD 218-224. 6.44 g. IOYΛ MAICA CEBACTH, draped bust right, wearing stephane. / KYZIKHNΩN NEΩKOΡΩN, goatherd sitting right on a rock beneath a tree, milking a goat. Mionnet II 227; Aiello Mysia 120.TextImage
Laodikeia
Phrygia

BMC 250
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Laodikea ad Lycum, Phrygia. 6.1 g. AD 218-222. IOYΛIA MIACA CEB, draped bust right, (unclear countermark under chin). / ΛAOΔIKEΩN NEΩKOΡΩN, Nemesis, winged, standing left, plucking her chiton with her right hand and holding a bridle in her lowered left hand, wheel at foot left. BMC 250; SNG Munich 401; McClean 8834; Mionnet, IV, 789; Waddington 6320; Armstrong 169.TextImage
Myndos
Righetti Coll. 445
Julia Maesa AE25 of Myndos, Caria. AD 218-222. 5.86 g. Magistrate Phil. Tychikos. IOYΛI MAICA CE, draped bust right. / EΠ CTΡ ΦIΛ TYXIKOY B MY-NΔI-ΩN, Tyche, kalathos on head, standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. Righetti Coll. sale, Part III, 445, otherwise unpublished.TextImage
Myrina
DS-6
Julia Maesa AE26 of Myrina, Aeolis. IOYΛIA MAICA CEBACTH, draped bust right / EΠ CTΡ (ΦOY) ΦΡEΓEΛΛANOY MYΡEINAI, Ω-N (across fields), Apollo Grynion standing facing, head left, right shoulder and left breast bare, holding patera over burning altar and laurel branch. Unpublished for Julia Maesa. Owner's reference DS-6.TextImage
Nicaea
RecGen 575
Julia Maesa, AE20 of Nicaea, Bithynia. AD 218-223. 4.84 g. IOYΛIA MAICA AYΓ, draped bust right. / NIKAIEΩN, prize urn containing one palm branch. RecGen 575; Paris 1075; Mionnet Supp. V, 758.TextImage
Nicaea
RecGen 576
Julia Maesa, AE22, Nicaea, Bithynia. IOYΛIA MAICA AVΓ, draped bust right / NI-KAI-EΩN to left, right and beneath hexastyle temple. RecGen 576.TextImage
Nysa
SNG Cop 322
Julia Maesa AE23 of Nysa, Lydia. AD 218-223. IOY MAI CEBA, draped bust right / NYCAEΩN, Mên standing front, looking left, wearing Phrygian cap, crescent behind shoulders, holding patera and sceptre. SNG Cop 322; Regling 135; GRPC Lydia 169.TextImage
Odessos
Moushmov 1625
Julia Maesa, AE of Odessos, Thrace. IOVΛIA MAICA CE, draped bust right / OΔHCCEITΩN, Herakles naked, standing left, holding club and lionskin. Moushmov 1625; Varbanov 4411; AMNG 2307.TextImage
Odessos
Varbanov 4410
Julia Maesa, AE18 of Odessos, Thrace. IOVΛIA MAICA CE, draped bust right / OΔHCCEITΩN, Herakles naked, standing front, looking right, holding club and lionskin. Varbanov 4410.TextImage
Olbasa
Aulock 27
Julia Maesa AE25 of Olbasa, Pisidia. AD 218-223. 8.09 g. IVL MAESAM AVG, draped bust right. / COL IVL AVG OLBASE, Mên, crescent on shoulders, on horseback prancing right. Aulock Olbasa 27; Paris 466; SNG France III 1642; SNG Fitz 5170 corr (legend); SNG Righetti 1410.TextImage
Olbasa>
SNG France 1643
Julia Maesa AE 25mm of Pisidia, Olbasa. IVL MAESA AVG, draped bust of Julia Maesa right / COL IVL AVG OLBASE, Hygeia standing right facing Aeskulapius standing left, holding serpent staff. Aulock Olbasa 28; SNG France 1643.TextImage
Prusa ad
Olympum

RecGen 131 corr
Julia Maesa AE23 of Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia. AD 218-222. 4.66 g. IOYΛIA MAICA AYΓ, draped bust right. / ΠΡOYCAEΩN, Hera standing left, holding patera and sceptre. RecGen 131 corr ("Athena").TextImage
Sardes
GRPC Lydia 596
Julia Maesa. AE of Sardes, Lydia. AD 218-223. Magistrate G. Sal. Claudianus. 14.91 gr. IOYΛIA MAICA AYΓOYC, draped bust right / EΠI Γ KΛAYΔIANOY AΡX TO B CAΡΔIANON B NEΩKOΡON, Tyche, turreted, standing front, looking left, holding an infant in her left arm and holding the hand of a second child standing right before her, with her right hand. GRPC Lydia 596, otherwise unpublished. Lanz 154, 419.TextImage
Sardes
GRPC Lydia 597
Julia Maesa. AE30 of Sardes, Lydia. 218-223. Magistrate G. Sal. Claudianus. IOYΛIA MAICA AYΓOYCTA, draped bust right / EΠI Γ CAΛ KΛAYΔIANOY AΡX TO B CAΡΔIANΩN B NEΩKORΩN, view of city walls with six towers, large lion crouching left before the wall. GRPC Lydia 597, otherwise unpublished. G&M 118, 1750.TextImage
Sardes
GRPC Lydia 604
Julia Maesa AE of Sardes, Lydia. 5.50 g. IOVΛIA MAICA AV, draped bust right / CAΡΔIANΩN Γ NEΩKOΡΩN, Men standing left, holding pine cone and sceptre. GRPC Lydia 604, otherwise unpublished.TextImage
Sardes
Mionnet Supp. VII, 513
Julia Maesa, AE21 of Sardes, Lydia. AD 218-223. IOΛIA MAICA CEBA (sic), draped bust right / CAΡΔIANΩN TΡIC NEΩKOΡΩN, Demeter, veiled, standing left, holding corn-ears and torch. Mionnet Supp. VII, 513; Paris 1291; GRPC Lydia 602.TextImage
Sardes
SNG Leypold 1233 corr.
Julia Maesa, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 5.30 g. IOVΛIA MAICA AV, draped bust right / CAΡΔIANΩN Γ NEΩKOΡΩN, Demeter standing left, holding corn-ears and sceptre, serpent at foot. Bell, Sardis XI 301; Gökyildirim Istanbul 616-617; Leypold 1233 corr. (rev. type); GRPC Lydia 600.TextImage
Sebaste
Samaria
BMC 15
Julia Maesa, AE of Sebaste, Samaria. AD 218-222. 9.74 g. (from top right) MAESA AVGVSTA, draped bust right. / COL L SEP SEBASTE, tetrastyle temple with Zeus seated front within, with Athena and Juno standing at his sides. Wreath in pediment. BMC 15; SNG ANS 1083.TextImage
Sebaste
Samaria
BMC 16
Julia Maesa AE20 of Sebaste, Samaria. AD. 218-225. 10.84 g. (from top right) MAESA AVGVSTA, draped bust right. / COL L S SEBASTE, Hades in galloping quadriga right, carrying off the struggling Persephone, Eros flying right above, overturned basket or cista mystica beneath the horses. BMC 16; Rosenberger 30; Sofaer 34; Mionnet V, 114.TextImage
Selge
Aufhauser 2, 314
Iulia Maesa AE of Selge, Pisidia. 1.79 g. IO MAICA CE, diademed, draped bust right / CEΛΓEΩN, Athena standing left, holding spear and dropping voting pebble into urn at foot left. Aufhauser 2, 314; SNG Camb. 5198.TextImage
Side
Watson 137
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Side, Pamphylia. AD 218-223. 8.18 g. IOYΛIA MAICA CEB, draped bust right. / CIΔHTΩN, Athena standing left ("head right"), holding patera and transverse spear. Watson 137; Antalya Mus. 1382; Büyükyörük Side Mus. 90 26.TextImage
Sidon
BMC 296
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. 8.47 gr. IVL MAESA AVG, draped bust right / COL AV PIA MET, Kadmos running left on prow, looking right, holding sheathed sword in left hand and raising right hand. Rouvier 1591 corr. (reverse description); BMC 296.TextImage
Sidon
BMC 300
Julia Maesa AE20 of Sidon. IVL MAESA AVG, draped bust right / Car of Astarte containing sacred baetyl, perhaps a meteorite, below canopy. SNG Cop. 264.TextImage
Sidon
BMC 300
Julia Maesa AE 30mm of Phoenicia, Sidon. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, car of Astarte with four branches protruding from roof. TextImage
Sidon
Rouvier 1589
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 218-224. IOVL MAICA AVG, draped bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDO, Marsyas standing right within arched tetrastyle temple, right hand raised, wineskin over shoulder. Paris E2933; Rouvier 1589; Bernhart -.TextImage
Tarsos
WWxls 40301
Julia Maesa, AE30 of Tarsos, Cilicia. AD 218-222. 9.9 g. IOYΛIAN MAICAN CEBACTHN, draped bust right. / TAΡCOY THC MHTΡOΠOΛEΩ A M K Γ B, Julia Paula standing right, clasping hands with Elagabalus, standing left. Unpublished with this longer obv. legend. WWxls 40301. Biga 17, 219.TextImage
Thessalonica
Moushmov 6777
Julia Maesa, AE23 of Thessalonica, Macedonia. AD 218-220. IOYΛIA MAICA AYΓOYCTA, draped bust right / ΘECCA-ΛONIKEΩN, Nike walking left, holding Kabiros and palm branch. Moushmov 6777; Varbanov 4467.TextImage
Tyre
Lindgren 2383
Julia Maesa AE 28mm of Phoenicia, Tyre. Draped and diademed bust right / Astarte within hexastyle temple.TextImage
Tyre
Mionnet V, 642 var
Julia Maesa AE28 of Tyre, Phoenicia. 13.56 g. IVLIA MAESA AVGV, bust of Julia Maesa right. / TVRIORVM, Astarte standing front, holding transverse sceptre and with right hand on trophy to left, Victory standing left, holding wreath, on a column behind her, palm tree at foot left and murex shell at foot right. Mionnet V, 642 var (this reverse for Elagabalus). Sevastides 6633.TextImage
Tyre
Rouvier 2406
Julia Maesa, AE27 of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 218-225. 11.49 g. IVLIA MAESA AVGV, diademed and draped bust right. / TVRIORVM, Dido standing left holding a ruler and sceptre surveying the construction of Carthage, the city gate on the left, with a mason on the roof, a worker with a pick-axe digging before the gateway. Murex shell in upper centre, palm tree to right of Dido. (on clear examples: ΔEI-ΔΩ below). Rouvier 2406.TextImage
Tyre
Rouvier 2459 corr
Julia Maesa, AE26 of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 218-225. 10.58 g. IVLIA MAISA AVGV, diademed and draped bust right. / TVRIORVM, Aeneas mounting galley right, looking left, extending right hand over a murex shell towards a trophy on the left and holding sword in left hand. Object resembling a ram's head right below. Rouvier 2459 corr. = Babelon Perses 2288 corr. ("Herennia Etruscilla"); Imhoof 38 in Nomisma V; AUB Beirut C1502; Paris B2288.TextImage
Egypt
Milne 2752
Julia Maesa Billon Tetradrachm of Alexandria. Year 2 of Elagabalus (AD. 218-219). Draped bust right / Spes walking left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. Köln 2532, Curtis 998.TextImage
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