Pudicitia appears as a virtue of several empresses on Roman coinage from about AD 112 onwards. As the personification of modesty or chastity she is usually depicted fully clothed and veiled, either seated or standing, holding a sceptre and touching her veil. Coins of the empress Plotina, Trajan's spouse, for instance, depict Pudicitia standing in front of an altar.

The Roman virtue of pudicitia was perceived as a positive feminine quality - in men it seemed to relay a neutral ideal or quality and was associated with a good emperor. Coinage of Hadrian, for instance, often depict the personification of Pudicitia as reverse type - on the obverse she features as part of the imperial titelature.

The reverse above of a denarius of the empress Julia Maesa shows Pudicitia seated, holding a sceptre and raising her veil.