COINS OF THE ROMAN CAISER TIME. Tiberius, 14-37 for Livia. Æ-Dupondius, 22/23, Rome; 13,68 g. Draped bust of Livia as salus r., among them SALVS AVGVSTA//TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG P M TR POT XXIIII, in the middle S·C. BMC 82; Coh. 5; RIC2 47. Brown patina, min. smoothed, very nice Exemplary of the auction Sternberg XIII, Zurich 1983, No. 568. David Vagi looks at the averses of RIC numbers 43 (Pietas), 46 (Iustitia) and 47 three imperial ladies, namely Livilla, Agrippina Senior and Livia (Coinage and History of the Roman Empire c. 82 B.C. - A.D. 480, Sidney 1999, p. 127). In his view, "AVGVSTA" gives the title of Livia here, so in his view only RIC 47 Livia can be represented; and the absence of the title in RIC 43 and 46 he considers as proof that other ladies - namely Livilla and Agrippina Senior - must be represented here (Vagi, p. 115). However, David Vagi fails to understand that the statement of the legend "SALVS AVGUSTA" is not: "Salus, the Empress (Livia)", but Salus Augusta, the imperial Salus, that is, that Salus who stood for the emperor's work for the welfare of the state (and thus was identical with Salus Publica, see Winkler, Lorenz, Salus. From state cult to political idea. An archaeological investigation, Heidelberg 1995). This brings David Vagi's argument for the portrayal of three imperial ladies together. If one wants to recognize in the heads of the Iustitia, the Pietas and the Salus Augusta the head of an imperial lady (which is disputed), only Livia can be meant, because in the provincial embossing corresponding representations are clearly named as Livia and it makes sense in terms of content: Thus writes Alexander Mlasowsky, Nomini ac fortunae Caesarum proximi. The succession propaganda of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Nero in the mirror of the imperial embossment and the archaeological sources, yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute III (1996), p. 358: "In the sense of her son Tiberius, the aging Iulia Augusta embodied the goddess of Herdfire, Vesta, throughout the empire, symbolizing the eternal virtues of Iustitia, Salus and Pietas."