Moneta
Moneta on denarius emperor Septimius Severus
Moneta ( Latin for "warning woman") is the nickname of the Roman goddess Iuno . Their cult was started in Rome in 345 BC. Introduced. In or next to their temple there was a mint on the Roman Capitol . The bust of the goddess also adorned some of the coins minted there .
Since Domitian , the representation of Moneta appears on Roman coins as a personification of coinage or the mint, typically with a scale in hand.
Moneta originally meant "reminder" or "reminder". The mint was later given this name, and then the money . Moneta is now commonly translated as “money”. The German designation “ coins ” is also derived from this word . In the 17th century, the then student term "Moneten" came up in German usage.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Moneta 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3200 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Assmann: Moneta. In: Klio. Contributions to ancient history 6, 1906, pp. 477–488
- Martin Dennert : Moneta . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, pp. 852-854.
- Andreas Bendlin : Moneta. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 365 f.