400, Lot: 653. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.38 g, 12h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. Veiled and draped bust right, wearing tutulus of pearls on top of her head / Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by charioteer in biga right. RIC III 1135b (Pius); Banti 63. Near VF, green-brown patina, some roughness. Rare.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Superior (22 August 1994), lot 2456.