Sole Example in Private Hands
Published by Beckmann

CNG 108, Lot: 636. Estimate $10000. Sold for $11950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 150 (or later). DIVA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust left, with hair bound in pearls / AETER-NITAS, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and globe. RIC III –; Beckmann dies df62/AB7.b (this coin); Calicó –; Biaggi –. EF, underlying luster. Extremely rare and possibly the only example in private hands.

Ex Vinchon (7 November 1977), lot 116.

Beckmann knew of only two coins with this reverse type paired with a bust left: our specimen and another in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.