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Radiate

Wearing a radiate crown.

Radiate

Wearing a radiate crown. Tiberius was the first emperor to depict the radiate crown on coin portraiture, but ONLY for postumous portraiture of the deified Augustus. Nero was the first to depict it on a living person (himself).  The radiate crown is an attribute of the Sun god (Sol Invictus, Helios) and is conferring that association upon the wearer.  As a bust attribute on some roman coins it served as a "double value" denominational marker: dupondius = double as, antoninianus = double denarius.