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Description: Source: English Wikipedia, original upload by Panairjdde Description: Cornelia Supera, wife of Aemilianus. AR Antoninianus (2.48 gm). :CORNELIA SUPERA, diademed and draped bust right, resting on crescent :VESTA, Vesta standing left, holding patera in right hand, transverse sceptre in left. RIC IV 30; Hunter 1; RSC 5. Nothing is known of this lady other than the information which is imparted by her extremely rare coinage of Roman antoniniani together with several provincial issues in aes. What evidence there is points to her having been the wife of the ephemeral emperor M. Aemilius Aemilianus.
Title: Vesta antoninianus
Credit: Antoninianus-Cornelia_Supra-RIC_0030.jpg
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