Editing Genius (mythology) (section)

===Coins===
The ''genius'' of a corporate social body is often a [[Cameo (carving)|cameo]] theme on ancient coins: a [[denarius]] from Spain, 76–75 BC, featuring a bust of the ''GPR'' (''Genius Populi Romani'', "''Genius'' of the Roman People") on the [[obverse]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Bust of Genius Populi Romani, Illustration of Boston 42.527|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/image?img=1997.03.0155|publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University|location=Medford|year=1998|access-date=2 July 2009}}</ref> an [[aureus]] of [[Siscia]] in [[Croatia]], 270–275 AD, featuring a standing image of the ''GENIUS ILLVR'' (''Genius Exercitus Illyriciani'',<ref>{{cite book|page=1379|title=Lexicon Universae Rei Numariae Veterum et Praecipue Graecorum ac Romanorum|editor-first=Christopher|editor-last=Rasche|publisher=Libraria Gleditschia|year=1785|volume=2 Part 1}}</ref> "''Genius'' of the Illyrian Army") on the reverse;<ref>{{cite web|title=Genius, wearing modius on head, holding a wreath; military standard at right, Illustration of Boston 66.426|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1997.03.1402|publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University|location=Medford|year=1998|access-date=2 July 2009}}</ref> an [[aureus]] of Rome, 134–138 AD, with an image of a youth holding a ''cornucopia'' and ''patera'' (sacrificial dish) and the inscription GENIOPR, ''genio populi Romani'', "to the ''genius'' of the Roman people", on the reverse.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reverse: Genius standing: Illustration of Boston 1974.521|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1997.03.0642|publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University|location=Medford|year=1998|access-date=12 July 2009}}</ref>
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|File:Lararium Pompeji Detail.JPG|Scene from ''lararium'', Pompeii
|File:August Pio-Clementino Inv259.jpg|''Genius'' of [[Augustus]]
|File:Antonius Pius Column Base.JPG|''Genius'' of [[Antoninus Pius]]
|File:Winged genius Boscoreale Louvre P23.jpg|Unknown Roman ''genius'' near Pompeii, 1st century BC
|File:Pompei - House of Iulius Polybius - Lararium.jpg|''Lararium'' with small, central ancestral ''genius'' figure flanked by [[Lares]], above a serpent-''genius'' representing fertility. House of Iulius Polybius, Pompeii.
|File:Vettii.jpg|Ancestral ''genius'' (upper centre) flanked by ''Lares'', with serpent below. ''Lararium'', [[House of the Vettii]] Pompeii.
|File:Pompeii - Casa del Centenario - MAN.jpg|[[Bacchus]] clad with grapes, and a serpentine [[Agathodaemon|Agathodaimon]] ("good divinity"), ''genius'' of the soil around Vesuvius
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