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Contributor: Matthew Geary.
Issuer: PAULINA, wife of Maximinus I, 235-238 AD. AR Denarius.
Obverse: DIVA PAVLINA, her veiled and draped bust facing right.
Reverse: CONSECRATIO, Paulina, holding sceptre and raising hand, seated left on a peacock, flying right to heaven.
Reference: RIC 2. Formerly San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, no. 50884.
Comments: For more information, read the "Maximinus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Paulina see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.