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The figure is very like that of Pax on the Latin coins with PAX AVGVST (RPC II, 501), and so has been identified here as Eirene. Neither the snake (RPC II, 677) nor the prow (RPC II, 678) is very appropriate for Eirene, though both occur with representations of Demeter; this is perhaps why Bosch (p. 183, no. 4) seems to have identified the figure as Demeter; but Demeter does not seem very likely, and Bosch refers to a similar type under Trajan with the legend Eirene. Both the snake and prow are perhaps in some sense 'issue-marks' rather than attributes of the deity represented as the main type (see RPC II, 680-2).
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