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Showcase Auction 61258  20 Feb 2022
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Lot 98068

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Julia Titi (ca. AD 79-90/1). AR denarius (18mm, 6h). NGC Fine. Rome, AD 80-81. IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F•, draped bust of Julia Titi right, seen from front, hair bunched in front of stephane, thickly braided into long queue hanging down at back / VENVS-AVGVSTI, Venus Callipyge, seen half from behind, nude to hips, standing right, resting left elbow on column, transverse scepter in left hand, helmet in outstretched right. RIC II.1 (Titus) 388.

From the Werner Collection. Ex Heritage Auctions, Auction 232121 (26 May 2021), lot 64170

The reverse image of Venus is likely modeled after the marble Roman statue - Aphrodite Kallipygos (Callipygian Venus) - from the late 1st century BC, in turn thought to be a copy of an older Greek statue, and literally means "Venus (Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks."

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