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"Venus of the beautiful buttocks"
Printed Auction 43 Lot 128

Julia Titi. Augusta, A.D. 79-90/1. AR denarius. 3.3 gm. 19 mm. Rome mint. Struck under Titus, A.D. 80-81. Her draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair in long plait at back; IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F / Venus standing right, seen half from behind, naked except for drapery around hips, resting elbow on column, holding helmet and transverse spear; VENVS AVGVST. RIC II.1 388. RSC 14. Near Very Fine; attractive old tone. Rare.

Ex Russell C. Hollingsworth Collection (CNG XXXIV, 6 May 1995, lot 312).

 

Julia Titi, daughter of the emperor Titus who helped conquer Judaea and in 70 A.D. looted and destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, was known for her hot temper and wild nature. After her husband’s death she had a scandalous affair with her uncle, the emperor Domitian.

In A.D. 79 Vespasian died and Titus became sole emperor. One of his first official acts was to raise his daughter Julia to the rank of Augusta, or Empress, the first woman in more than a decade to hold that exalted position. He struck this lovely coin for the occasion. Julia thus became the first reigning Roman empress to be honored with a regular issue of Roman coins struck solely in her own name.

Venus on the reverse is probably modeled after the late First Century B.C. Roman marble statue "Aphrodite Kallipygos (Callipygian Venus)," which itself is thought to be a copy of an older Greek statue and literally means "Venus (Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks.”

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