434, Lot: 358. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 26.26 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 146-161. Draped bust right, wearing tutulus of pearls / Vesta standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding long torch. RIC III 1130 (Antoninus Pius); Banti 52. VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness/pitting. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Noble 86 (21 November 2007), lot 3448; Davissons 13 (Spring 2000), lot 134. Reportedly ex British Museum Collection/Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode Collection, formed in 1790s.