{"id":129,"date":"0196-04-23T18:39:00","date_gmt":"0196-04-23T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/?p=129"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:03:47","slug":"denarius-of-julia-domna-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/0196\/04\/23\/denarius-of-julia-domna-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Denarius of Julia Domna Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Denarius of Julia Domna<\/em> coin shown below was minted under Septimus Severus of the imperial Roman Empire.&nbsp; It is estimated to have been minted sometime between the dates 196-211 C.E. in Turkey, Laodicea.&nbsp; The coin is made of silver and measures 18 millimeters across and weighs a total of 3.238 grams.&nbsp; Julia Dmona is depicted on the obverse side of the coin with an inscription reading \u201cIVLIA AVGVSTA\u201d which translates to \u201cJulia Augusta\u201d, Augusta being a title she earned as the emperor\u2019s wife.&nbsp; The reverse side depicts the goddess Isis holding the god Horus.&nbsp; The goddess Isis is an Egyptian deity who symbolizes magic, healing, and fertility, all of which were values that Julia Domna aimed to promote.&nbsp; The fact that these two deities are Egyptian likely speaks to the fact that this coin was used as a part of the colonization of Laodicea.&nbsp; It was a common tactic among both the Roman empire and the Athenian empire to co-opt local religious figures of the lands they colonized in order to decree their validity of rule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-11\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"11\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Obverse Side\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-16\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"16\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Reverse Side\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/917\/2024\/04\/History-of-Money-Individual-Object-pdf.pdf\">Click to learn more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denarius of Julia Domna coin shown below was minted under Septimus Severus of the imperial Roman Empire.&nbsp; It is estimated to have been minted&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/0196\/04\/23\/denarius-of-julia-domna-coin\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denarius of Julia Domna Coin<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2490,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient","category-timeline","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}