383, Lot: 531. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.36 g, 10h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. Draped bust right, wearing pearls bound on top of her head / Aeternitas standing left, holding globe surmounted by phoenix and raising hem of skirt. RIC III 1105 (Pius); Banti 5. VF, dark gray and brown patina, hairline flan crack, some smoothing in fields.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 125 (1 July 2002), lot 186.