[Home, My eBay, Site Map, Sign In/Out] [eBay logo] [Main Navigation] [Browse Sub-Navigation] BDC-Julia Domna Sestertius,RIC857,RARE,noresv Item #469842704 Coins & Stamps:Coins: World:Ancient:Roman: Imperial [Image] Bidding is closed for this item. [Image] [Show description]Currently $47.88 First bid $1.00 Quantity 1 # of bids 10 bid history | [Leave feedback] with emails (to seller) Time left Auction has Location Houston, TX (to bidder) ended. Country/Region USA/Houston If you are the Started Oct-15-00 [envelope] mail this auction to seller or the 18:34:48 PDT a friend high bidder - Oct-22-00 [Gift Alert] request a gift now what? Ends 18:34:48 PDT alert [Image] Seller (Rating) bodvoc (141) [star] view comments in seller's Feedback Profile | view seller's other auctions | ask seller a question [Image] High bid fascinating (95) [star] Payment Money Order/Cashiers Checks, Personal Checks, See item description for payment methods accepted Escrow Accepted. 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Satisfaction guaranteed, full refund if returned in same condition and in a reasonable time period. a394 - Roman Imperial Julia Domna, Wife of Septimius Severus, Augusta 193 - 217 AD, AE Sestertius, Rome Mint, 196 - 211 AD, 21.48gms, 32mm, Obv: Draped bust right, hair waved and coiled at back, IVLIA DOMNA AVG., Rev: IVNONI LVCINAE – S.C., Juno seated left, holding flower and child in swaddling clothes, RIC 857 (Septimius Severus), RARE, about Very Fine, nice dark brown patina, nice portrait and good reverse detail, somewhat rough surfaces, particularly on periphery around obverse legend. A heavy, well- centered and pleasant example of a rare coin. In “Dictionary of Roman Religion”, Adkins says “JUNO as a goddess of light and childbirth. This was an early aspect of the Roman goddess Juno. She probably originally derived the name Lucina for lucus (meaning “grove”). A temple in the grove on the Esquiline Hill in Rome was dedicated to her in 375 BC, and Pliny records that the goddess took her name from this grove, in which there was an ancient tree where the Vestal Virgins hung up offerings of locks of their hair. Later, the name Lucina was thought to indicate a goddess of light, and at least by the second century BC, Juno Lucina came to be regarded as a goddess of childbirth, the newborn child having been “brought to light.” Women who worshiped this goddess had to untie any knots on their clothing and unbind their hair to remove symbolically any hindrance to safe delivery. King Servius Tullius was said to have ordered that a coin should be placed in her temple for every birth to record the growth of the population. Juno Lucina was worshipped at the Matronalia festival on March 1.” This coin celebrates the fertility of the empress and her role as matron of the Empire and mother of the camp. 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