Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding Livia’s power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This volume provides unique insights into the impact of these representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media. Julia Augusta: Images of Rome’s First Empress on the Coins of the Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.

As far as it is known, collecting Roman coins is quite interesting and popular hobby. Here, it is suggested that one of the most fascinating fields of collector's interest is the coinage, which was executed in the names of Roman empresses. As for this work, it is the first attempt to accumulate and describe coins, issued in their name. The catalogue contains descriptions of 295 denarii. Moreover, these denarii are divided into types, and the appraisal according to the frequency is given. All the diversity of empresses' denarii is shown in this catalogue, and it includes the pictures of all denarii, which are described. Hence, it will help to learn and to understand this magnificent field of collecting Roman coins.

As far as it is known, collecting Roman coins is quite interesting and popular hobby. Here, it is suggested that one of the most fascinating fields of collector's interest is the coinage, which was executed in the names of Roman empresses. As for this work, it is the first attempt to accumulate and describe coins, issued in their name. The catalogue contains descriptions of 269 denarii and antoninianii. Moreover, these coins are divided into types, and the appraisal according to the frequency is given. All the diversity of empresses' denarii and antoninianii is shown in this catalogue, and it includes the pictures of all coins, which are described. Hence, it will help to learn and to understand this magnificent field of collecting Roman coins.

Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 8227 coin types, this book describes and interprets the diachronic development of the representation of Roman emperors on imperial coins issued between 193 and 284.

Wedding in Gaul (414) -- Funerals in Barcelona (414-416) -- Making of an empress (417-425) -- Restoration and rehabilitation (425-431) -- Bride, a book, and a pope (437-438) -- Between Rome and Ravenna (438-450).

The coinage struck posthumously in the name of Faustina the Elder, wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, was the largest such issue ever produced by the mint of Rome. Until now it has been impossible to date these coins with any accuracy, and thus difficult to determine their place in imperial ideology. This study definitively resolves the chronological difficulties of these undated issues by means of die study of Diva Faustina's gold and bronze coinage. This new understanding of the coinage then forms the basis for a study of the iconographic commemoration of Faustina in all media throughout the empire. It sheds significant new light on the changing nature of the cult of Faustina during (and perhaps after) the lifetime of her husband Antoninus Pius, on the nature and mechanisms of family commemoration in the Antonine period in general, on the cult of the divi divaeque, and especially on the role of imperial women, living and dead, in the presentation of the public image of the emperor both in Rome and in the provinces. The volume contains illustrated catalogues of the sestertii and aurei in the name of Diva Faustina, including forgeries and a statistical analysis, co-authored with Warren Esty.