Ancient Coin Stories

Let coins tell their stories…

Livia, wife of Augustus
issued under Tiberius, 22-23 CE
Æ 30mm, 13,07g
obv. draped bust of Livia to right as Salus, SALVS AVGVSTA below
rev. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG P M TR POT XXIIII legend around SC
S.1740, RIC 47, BMC 81
39 BCE

Octavian divorces Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, despite her being pregnant with her previous husband’s child.

9 CE

Claudius marries Plautia Urgulanilla, the granddaughter of his grandmother Livia’s close friend Urgulania.