Livia, wife of Augustus mother of Tiberius and grandmother of Claudius. According to Suetonius, she poisoned Caius and Lucius as well as Augustus himself, in order to ensure the accession of Tiberius.
RIC 43 Sear5 #1741 | Livia AE Dupondius. Struck ca 22/3 AD. PIETAS beneath veiled, diademed and draped bust of Livia as Pietas right / DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F TR POT ITER around large SC. RIC 43; Cohen 1. | (Example) | |
RIC 43v | Livia AE Dupondius. Issued under Tiberius, 22-23 AD. PIETAS behind veiled and diademed bust of Livia as Pietas right / DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F TR POT ITER around large SC. RIC 43 var (position of obv. legend). | Text | Image |
RIC 46 Sear5 #1739 | Livia AE Dupondius. Struck under Tiberius, 22-23 AD. IVSTITIA, diademed and draped bust of Livia as Justitia right / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG P M TR POT XXIIII around large SC. | (Example) | |
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RIC 47 Sear5 #1740 | Livia, AE Dupondius. SALVS AVGVSTA, draped bust of Livia as Salus right, hair in knot behind head / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG PM TR POT XXIIII around large SC. RIC 47 corr (PM omitted in error); BMCRE 82; Sear 1740. | (Example) | |
RIC 50 | Livia AE Sestertius. Struck under Tiberius. SPQR IVLIAE AVGVST, in two lines in two lines above ornamented carpentum being drawn by two mules / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST PM TR POT XXIIII around large SC. Cohen 6. | Text | Image |
RIC 51 Sear5 #1738 | Livia. AE sestertius, 27.51 g. Struck under Tiberius, AD 22-23. SPQR IVLIAE AVGVST in three lines, funeral carpentum drawn right by two mules / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST P M TR POT XXIIII. around large SC. RIC 51; BMCRE 76; Cohen 6; Sear 1738. | (Example) | |
RIC 406 [titus] | Livia, AE Dupondius. 12.89g, 28mm. Restoration issue under Titus. Rome, AD 80-81. IVSTITIA, draped bust of Livia as Justitia right, wearing stephane / IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M, TR P P P COS VIII RESTITVIT in two lines around large SC. RIC 406; Sear 3587. | Text | Image |
RIC 424[titus] | Livia, commemorative coinage by Titus (79-81 AD). AE Dupondius, Rome, 80-81 AD. 27mm, 13.31 gr. IVSTITIA, draped bust of Livia as Justitia right, wearing stephane / IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG REST, around large SC. Cohen 9, RIC II 424 (Titus), BMC 289 (Titus), Komnick 15. | Text | Image |
Buttrey 13, 3 | Livia, AE tessera. Struck under Tiberius. Head of Livia left, hair with light waves and tied in small knot in back, within circle only / III within border and wreath. Buttrey 13, 3; Cohen -; Belfort -. | Text | Image |
Augusta SNG Lev 1246 | Livia AE19 of Cilicia, Augusta. 14-37 AD. Draped bust of Livia right / AYΓOYCTANΩN ETOYΣ ZΠ, helmeted head of Athena right, with aegis. | Text | Image |
Romula RPC 73 | Divus Augustus and Livia, AE32 Dupondius of Colonia Romula, Spain. 23.44 gr. Struck after AD 16. DIVI AVG COL ROM PERM, Radiate head of Divus Augustus right; six-rayed star above, thunderbolt to right / IVLIA AVGVSTA GENETRIX ORBIS, Head of Livia left, set on globe, crescent above. RPC 73; Sear (1988) 551; Vives pl. CLXVII, 2; Burgos 1587; SNG Cop. 421. | Text | Image |
Oea RPC 833 | Livia, AE26 of Oea, Syrtica, 14-29. 9.33 g. Draped bust right; grain ear behind head, peacock standing right before head / Helmeted bust of Minerva left, wearing aegis; Neo-Punic WY'T in left field. RPC 833; Mueller 35; SNG Cop 34; RPC I 833. | Text | Image |
Oea RPC 835 | Livia, AE26 of Oea, Syrtica. 7.55 g. No legend, draped bust of Livia right. / Punic legend WY'T, helmeted head of Athena left, wearing aegis on chest. RPC I, 835; SNG Cop 33. ANS 1944.100.79598. | Text | Image |
Corinth RPC 1153 | Livia AE As of Corinth. Struck 32-33 AD. L Arrius Peregrinus and L Furius Labeo, duovirs. Diademed, draped bust right / L FVRIO LABEONE around, COR below, Hexastyle temple inscribed GENT IVLI. RPC 1153; Amandry 169-173. | Text | Image |
Corinth RPC 1153 | Livia AE20 As of Corinth. Struck 32-33 AD. L Arrius Peregrinus and L Furius Labeo, duovirs. Diademed, draped bust right / L FVRIO LABEONE around, COR below, Hexastyle temple inscribed GENT IVLI. RPC 1153; Amandry 169-173. | Text | Image |
Thessaly Koinon RPC 1431 | Livia, AE25 of Koinon of Thessaly. Struck under Tiberius. AD 14-37. 13.71 g. Magistrate Lykoutos. ΣEBAΣTHΩN ΘEΣΣAΛΩN, female figure (Livia?) seated right, holding laurel branch and sceptre / ΣTΡATHΓOY ΛYKOYTOY, Demeter standing facing, head left, holding grain ears and long torch; V on inverted W on A monogram in left field. RPC 1431; Burrer 22.2 (this coin); Rogers 74; Mionnet Supp. III, 65. | Text | Image |
Thessaly Koinon RPC 1434 | Livia, AE24 of the Koinon of Thessaly. ΣEBAΣTHΩN THEΣΣAΛΩN, diademed veiled bust of Livia left / ΣTΡATHΓOY ANTIΓONOY, the nymph Larissa standing facing, right hand raised (holding globe?), monogram to left. RPC 1434. | Text | Image |
Thessaly Koinon RPC 1434, right | Livia, AE23 3-Assaria of Koinon of Thessaly. Struck under Claudius. 11.78 g. Magistrate Antigonos. ΘEΣΣAΛΩN ΣEBAΣTHΩN, veiled female head (Livia?) right, wearing stephane / ΣTΡATHΓOY ANTIΓONOY, the nymph Larissa standing left, holding ball in her right hand; monogram to left. Burrer Em. 1, Series 2, 27.3 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 924.1; RPC 1434. | Text | Image |
Thessaly Koinon RPC 1438 | Livia(?), AE17 Assaria of Koinon of Thessaly. Struck under Claudius. 4.05 g. Magistrate Antigonos. ΘEΣΣAΛΩN, draped bust right (Livia or Apollo?) / ANTIΓONOY ΣTΡATHΓ, Artemis Ennodia running right, holding torch in each hand; monogram to right. BCD Thessaly II 928; RPC 1438. | Text | Image |
Dium RPC 1543 | Livia AE23 of Macedonia, Dium or Pella. Veiled bust right, PIETAS below / L RVSTI CELLVS CORDVS III VIR QVINC DD in six lines. | Text | Image |
Thessalonica RPC 1563 | Livia, AE17 of Thessalonica, Macedonia. 3.67 g. ΘEOY ΛIBIA, diademed and draped bust right / ΘEΣΣAΛONIK, horse leaping right. RPC 1563; Touratsoglu 89-90. | Text | Image |
Byzantium RPC 1779B (Supp. IV) | Livia, AE18 of Byzantium, Thrace. AD 1429. 5.75 g. IOVΛIA ΣEBAΣTA, draped bust right. / EΠI AΓAΛΛEΩΣ HΡOXENOY, three grain ears. RPC 1779B (Supp. IV); SNG Verona 719; Mus. Verona 75358. | Text | Image |
Phanagoria RPC 1935 | Livia (?), AE20 of Agrippia (Phanagoria), Thrace, Draped and veiled bust of Livia as Aphrodite Apatura right. / AΓΡIΠΠEΩN, Prow left, H in right field, three dots below. RPC I, 1935; BMC 1-3; SNG Cop 7-8; Paris 39-40. | Text | Image |
Pantikapaion RPC 1936 | Livia, AE of Pantikapaion as Caesareia, Bosporos. 8.55 g. Draped and veiled bust of Livia as Aphrodite Apatura right, wearing kalathos / KAIΣAΡEΩN, sceptre with flower, H in right field. RPC 1936; MacDonald 274; SNG Cop. 9 (Phanagoreia). | Text | Image |
Pergamum RPC 2359 | Livia and Julia (wife and daughter of Augustus) AE19 of Mysia, Pergamum. Ca 10-2 BC, magistrate Charinos. ΛIBIAN HΡAN XAΡINOΣ, draped bust of Livia, as Hera, right / IOYΛIAN AΦΡOΔITHN, draped bust of Julia, as Aphrodite, right. BMC 248, SNGCop 464. | Text | Image |
Magnesia ad Sipylum RPC 2452 | Livia, AE16, 3.91 gr of Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia. After 17 AD. CEBACTHN MAΓNHTEC AΠO C, draped bust of Livia right / ΘEON CYNKΛHTON, draped bust of Senate right. RPC 2452; GRPC Lydia 94-95. | Text | Image |
Magnesia ad Sipylum RPC 2452C | Livia AE16 of Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia. 17-37 BC. 2.76 gr. CEBACTHN MAΓNHTEC AΠ CI, draped bust of Livia right / ΘEON CYNKΛHTON, bare head of the Senate right. RPC I 2452C; Paris 655; Waddington 5077; Imhoof LS 3; GRPC Lydia 96. | Text | Image |
Magnesia ad Sipylum RPC 2453 | Livia, AE18 of Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia. 3.07 g. Struck under Tiberius, AD 14-37. ΘEAN CEBACTHN, draped bust of Livia right / CYNKΛHTON MAΓNHTEC AΠO C, draped bust of the Senate right. RPC I 2453; BMC 48; Paris 652; SNG Munich 256; GRPC Lydia 97. | Text | Image |
Smyrna RPC 2469 | Livia AE 22mm of Smyrna, Ionia. P. Petronius, proconsul and Hieronymus, strategus. Struck 29-35 AD. ΣEBAΣTH ΣYNKΛHTOY ΣMYΡNAIΩN IEΡΩNYMOY, Diademed and draped bust of Senate right facing draped bust of Livia) left, in stephane / ΣEBAΣTOΣ TIBEΡIOΣ EΠI ΠETΡΩNIOY, tetrastyle temple with statue of Tiberius as pontifex standing facing within. | Text | Image |
Mysomacedones RPC Supp 1, 2568 | Livia, AE16 of Mysomacedones, Lydia. AD 14-29. CEBACTH, Livia seated right on throne, holding sceptre and branch / MYCOMAKEΔON-ΩN, cult image of Artemis Ephesia facing. RPC I Supp. 2568.3 (this coin); Leschhorn, Mysomakedones, 56; RPC 2568; Gökyildirim Istanbul 291; Vienna 36903; Plankenhorn 1127(this coin); GRPC Lydia 2(this coin). | Text | Image |
Ephesos RPC 2576 | Livia, AE17 of Ephesos, Ionia. Magistrate Aristeas Asklepiades. 2.93 gr. AD 14-29. No legend, draped bust of Livia right, hair in a bun / EΦE ΓΡAMMATEYΣ AΡIΣTEAΣ AΣKΛHΠI-AΔHΣ in five lines across fields and in exergue, Stag standing right. RPC I 2576; SNG Cop 367. | Text | Image |
Ephesos RPC 2580 | Livia, AE15 of Ephesos, Ionia. Magistrate Aristeas Metrobeis. 3.99 gr. AD 14-29. No legend, draped bust right, hair in a bun / EΦE ΓΡAMMATEYΣ AΡIΣTEAΣ MHTΡOB-EIΣ in five lines across fields and in exergue, Stag standing right. RPC 2580; SNG Cop 368; Imhoof GM 282A. | Text | Image |
Tralles RPC 2641 | Livia, AE19 of Tralles, Lydia. 23 BC - AD 14. Magistrate Nikomedes. KAIΣAΡEΩN, veiled bust right / NIKOMHΔHΣ, laureate head of Zeus right. RPC I 2641; BMC 82-BMC 83; Vienna 36784; Mionnet Supp. VII, 668; Paris 1580; GRPC Lydia 147. | Text | Image |
Magnesia ad Maeandrum RPC 2699 | Livia, AE15 of Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Ionia. AD 14-29. 3.39 g. IOYΛIA CEBACTH, draped bust right. / MAΓNHTΩN, cult image of Artemis Leukophrys facing with supports, a Nike to left and right of her head. ΡXA monogram in upper right field. RPC I 2699; Schultz Magnesia 26; SNG Turkey 10, 197. | Text | Image |
Keramos RPC 2773C | Livia, AE20 of Keramos, Caria. 31 BC-AD 14. 6.16 g. ΣEBA, draped bust right. / IEΡO ΓENH KEΡA, youthful male head right, with long hair. RPC 2773C; Türkoglu D01. | Text | Image |
Apollonia Salbace RPC 2865 | Livia. AE16 of Apollonia Salbace, Caria. AD 14-29. 3.63 g. Magistrate Kallipppos Artemidoros. ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust right / KAΛΛIΠΠOΣ AΡTEMIΔΩΡOY AΠOΛΛΩNIATΩN, Dionysos, wearing short chiton, standing left, holding kantharos and thyrsos. RPC 2865; SNG von Aulock 2488; BMC 20; SNG Cop 146. | Text | Image |
Tripolis Lydia RPC 3053 | Livia, AE16 of Tripolis, Lydia. Magistrate Hieratikos. AD 14-29. ΣEBAΣTH (anti-clockwise from lower right or upper left), draped bust left. IEΡATIKOΣ TΡIΠOΛEITΩN club. RPC I 3053; Paris 1809; Waddington 2679; Leypold I, 1338; Mionnet III (Caria) 519; SNG Munich 810; Mionnet Suppl. VI (Caria), 576; SNG Cop 741-742; Vienna 30094 and 30447; GRPC Lydia 90-91. | Text | Image |
Eumeneia RPC 3143 | Livia AE14 of Eumeneia, Phrygia. Kastoris Soteira. HΡA ΛEIBIA, draped bust right with hair in bound plait behind neck / EYM-ENEΩN-KAΣTOΡIΣ-ΣΩTIΡA in four lines within wreath. RPC I 3143; Paris 1988.215; BM 1991-1-30-68; Imhoof GRM 1. | Text | Image |
Eumeneia RPC 3148 | Livia, AE of Eumeneia, Phrygien. 3.59 g. ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust left / KΛEΩN-AΓAΠH-TOΣ-EYMENE-ΩN in five lines within wreath. RPC 3148; BMC 38; Paris 1115; Waddington 6028; SNG Cop 392; Imhoof MG 103. | Text | Image |
Eucarpeia RPC 3160 | Livia, AE of Eukarpeia, Phrygia. after 14 AD. 2.76 g. ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust right / EYKAΡ ΠITIKOY AΠΦIA IEΡHA in four lines within lined border, all within dotted border. RPC 3160; BMC 14. | Text | Image |
Cotiaeum RPC I 3219A | Livia AE17 of Cotiaeum, Phrygia. AD 26-28. Magistrate Pedonos. ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust of Livia right. / EΠI ΠEΔΩNOΣ KOTIAEΩN, Kybele seated left, holding patera and resting left arm on drum, lion at her side. RPC I 3219A; Emeç 603. | Text | Image |
Augusta Cilicia RPC 4007 | Livia, AE16 of Augusta, Cilicia; 14-29 AD. 2,94 gr. No legend, draped bust right / AYΓOYΣTANΩN, capricorn right with globe between forelegs, star above. RPC 4007; SNG Cop 69; BMC 1. | Text | Image |
RPC 4009v | Livia AE 19 of Cilicia, Augusta. 123124 AD. IOYΛIA ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust of Livia right / AYΓOYCTA CTANΩN, Tyche seated right in turreted crown, holding two stalks of grain in right hand, river god wading at feet, Date ΔΡ (Year 104) before. BMC 3v. | Text | Image |
Augusta RPC 4011 | Livia, AE17 of Augusta, Cilicia. 14-37 AD. 2.6g. Draped bust of Livia right, with hair in a knot and stephane / AYΓOYΣTANΩN, helmeted and draped bust of Athena right. Karbach 1990 37,1; RPC I 4011; Ziegler 860. | Text | Image |
Mallos RPC 4016 | Livia, AE20 of Mallos, Cilicia. 27 BC-AD 14. No legend, draped bust of Livia (?) left, hair in a bun. / MAΛΛΩTΩN, facing cult figure of Athena Magarsis, holding spear and serpent. Star in upper left and right fields. RPC I, 4016; SNG von Aulock 5723; SNG Levante 1265; SNG Turkey Antakya 18148. | Text | Image |
Caesarea Paneas RPC 4952 | Livia, AE16 of Caesarea Paneas, struck by Herod Philip, Tetrarch of Batanea, 4 BC-AD 34 AD. IOYΛIA CEBACTH, draped bust of Livia right / KAΡΠOΦOΡOCC ("fruit-bearing"), hand holding three stalks of grain, L Λ-Δ (year 34) across fields. Hendin 1233; RPC 4952, RPC 4949; Hendin 540. | Text | Image |
Alexandria RPC 5027 | Livia, AE23 diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 14-29. AE Diobol, 23mm, 9.87 g. Bare head right / Filleted double cornucopiae. RPC 5027; Milne 15; BMC 2637; Koeln 36, Dattari 72, Emmett 52; Sear 1743. | Text Text | Image Image |
Alexandria RPC 5058 Sear5 1746 | Livia AE23 Diobol of Alexandria. Dated Year 40, AD 10-11 AD. Draped bust right / LM in oak wreath. RPC 5058; BMC 32; SGI 209, Milne 26cf; Sear 1746. | Text | Image |
RPC 5064 | Livia AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 41. 23.6 mm, 8.7 g. No legend, draped bust right / LMA in oak wreath. RPC 5064; Dattari 67; BMC 33. | Text | Image |
Alexandria RPC 5072 | Livia, AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 42 = AD 12-13. 25 mm, 8.65 g. No legend, draped bust right. / Date L-MB to left and right of Athena standing left, holding Nike and resting left hand on shield. RPC 5072; Milne 32; Emmett 53. | Text | Image |
Alexandria RPC 5079 | Livia, AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. 14-29 AD. Head of Livia right / Bundle of two grain ears and two poppies; date L-Δ across field. RPC 5079; Dattari 104-5; Milne -. | Text | Image |
Augusta SGI 207 | Livia AE18 of Augusta, Cilicia. Draped bust right / AYΓOYCTANΩN, Capricorn right carrying globe, star above. Karbach 12; Sear Greece 207. | Text | Image |
Augusta SNG Lev 1238 | Livia AE20 of Augusta, Cilicia. Struck under Hadrian, AD 123-124. IOYΛIA CEBACTH, draped bust right / AYΓOYCTANHN ΔΡ, Tyche seated right, holding corn-ears, river-god swimming below. RPC III, 3319A; SNG Lev 1238; Ziegler 857. | Text | Image |
Uncertain | Livia AE24, unclear mint, Thrace ?. Bust of Livia (?) right / two female deities standing to left and right of altar (?). | Text | Image |
Coins and Livia by Barbara McManus (Co-Director, The VRoma Project) | |||
Coins of Livia at the Forum Ancient Coins | |||