Traian Decius VBERITAS AVG SOLD

Ruler: Traian Decius, 

Obverse: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right

Reverse: VBERITAS AVG;  Uberitas standing left, holding purse of money and cornucopiae.

Mint: AD 249-251. Rome

Denomination: Antoninianus

Reference: RIC IV-28; RSC-105.

Cena: 180 PLN

Note: Ubertas (or on coins sometimes Uberitas) Fertility/Richness/Abundance. This goddess is described as sometimes holding "a purse," sometimes "a bunch of grapes (?)." The late Abbe Cavedoni considered the object to be a "cow's udder" (uber), as also upon certain coins of Vespasian and Titus with the legend PAX AVG. Cohen and De Witte both adopted this opinion. But Henri de Longperier has conclusively shown, from reasearches made into the different forms of purses, that the goddess Fertility holds a purse of money, and that the object on the tripod of the coins with PAX AVG is also a purse.

Price: 180 PLN

Collection : 24 3rd century Military Emperors