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196, Lot: 182. Estimate $200.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Drachm (17mm, 2.72 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Two infants seated on throne. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; RPC Online -. Near VF, toned. Possibly unrecorded.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Edessa was the capital of the pseudo-autonomous Kingdom of Osrhoene, which minted a series of silver issues under the Antonines. This type struck in the name of Faustina Junior is based on an Imperial issue of Rome (see lot 291 below).