Calicó Plate Coin

420, Lot: 477. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Senior. Augusta, AD 138-140/1. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.15 g, 6h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 138-141. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, wearing hair elaborately waved and coiled, with bands across the head, and drawn up at the back and piled in a round coil on top / IVNONI REGINAE, Juno standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, scepter in left; to left, peacock standing left, head right. RIC III 338 (Pius); Calicó 1791 (same coin as illustration); Biaggi –. Near VF, edge marks.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 1702.