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The Roman Empire
Matidia, daughter of Marciana

Aureus September 112-117, AV 7.20 g. MATIDIA AVG DIVAE – MARCIANAE·F Draped bust r. with double stephane and hair elaborately dressed; she wears a necklace. Rev. PIETAS – AVGVST Pietas, draped and diademed, standing facing, head turned l., her two hands lowered to protect Matidia's daughters Sabina and Matidia the Younger standing l. and r. at her side and raising hands to her. C 9. BMC Trajan 660. Strack 200. Hill, UC 143, 573. CBN 910. Woytek 728.1. RIC Trajan 759. Calicó 1157.
Very rare and in unusually good condition for the issue. A superb portrait of
exceptional style struck in high relief. Extremely fine

Ex NAC 9, 1996, 863 and M&M 92, 2002, 76 sales.
Matidia was the only niece of the emperor Trajan who, having no children of his own, displayed the greatest affection for her. He essentially treated her as a daughter, and she often accompanied him on his travels. In addition to her close connection to Trajan, Matidia shared a mutual fondness for the future emperor Hadrian, who she admired enough to permit him to marry her youngest daughter Sabina. When Matidia died in 119, her funeral oration was delivered by Hadrian himself, as her uncle Trajan had died two years earlier. The reverse of this coin depicts Matidia in the guise of the goddess Pietas affectionately placing her hands on the heads of two young children, both female, who doubtless represent her own two daughters Matidia the Younger and Sabina.