445, Lot: 451. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AR Denarius (15mm, 3.03 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust facing right, wearing pearls bound on top of her head / CONSECRATIO, peacock walking right, head left. RIC III 384 (Pius); RSC 175. VF, toned, light deposits, metal flaw on reverse.

From a European collection formed prior to the First World War.