Ex Biaggi and Mazzini Collections

Triton XX, Lot: 762. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Quinarius (14mm, 3.64 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 154-157. FΛVSTINΛ ΛVGVSTΛ, Draped bust right, hair waved and coiled on back of head / ΛVGVS TI P II FIL •, Diana, draped, standing left, holding arrow in outstretched right hand and bow in left. RIC III 494a (Pius); King 44b (this coin cited); BMCRE 1098 (Pius); Biaggi 916 = Mazzini 20 (this coin). VF, a few minor marks. Very rare. None in CoinArchives.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 916; Leu FPL (Autumn 1998), no. 277; Elsen 41 (16 September 1995), lot 205; Leu 57 (25 May 1993), lot 277; Giuseppe Mazzini Collection, 20; Santamaria 16 (24 January 1938), lot 613.