CNG 102, Lot: 982. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.44 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head / PIET ΛS ΛVG, Pietas, veiled, standing left, holding acerrum in left hand and with right hand dropping incense on lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC III 394a (Pius); Beckmann daf2/PA2; Strack 428α (Pius); Calicó 1799 var. (break in rev. legend); BMCRE 310 (Pius) var. (same); Biaggi 827 var. (same). VF, a few tiny marks.