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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: CRISPINA, wife of Commodus, AD 180-192. AE As.
Obverse: CRISPINA AVGVSTA, Her draped bust right with her braided hair arranged in a bun behind her head.
Reverse: (I)VNO LVCINA SC, Juno Lucina standing left holding sceptre and patera.
Reference: RIC 680; Sear 1694. Grade: aVF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Commodus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Crispina see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.