Contributor: Matthew Geary.
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| Issuer: | PAULINA, wife of Maximinus I, 235-238 AD. AR Denarius. |
| Obverse: | DIVA PAVLINA, her veiled and draped bust facing right. |
| Reverse: | CONSECRATIO, Paulina, holding sceptre and raising hand, seated left on a peacock, flying right to heaven. |
| Reference: | RIC 2. Formerly San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, no. 50884. |
| Comments: |
For more information, read the "Maximinus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Paulina see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |
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