172, Lot: 236. Estimate $100. Sold for $203. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 21.16 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 169-175. Draped bust right / Cybele seated right holding drum on knee, two lions on either side of throne. RIC III 1663 (Aurelius); BMCRE 932 (Aurelius); Cohen 169. VF, brown patina.
From The John A. Seeger Collection.
See lot 102 for the eastern version of Cybele, Atergatis.