383, Lot: 536. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.30 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 170-175/6. Draped bust right / Ceres seated left on chest, holding two grain ears and torch. RIC III 669 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 2-4c (unlisted variety); RSC 35. EF, struck with worn reverse die. Bold portrait.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 174 (22 May 2014), lot 256.

According to MIR, this reverse type with Ceres standing holding the grain ears downward and also holding a torch is only known with early obverse varieties with hair styles a and b (RIC and RSC do not specify hair varieties). This example uses hairstyle c and is therefore dated later.