453, Lot: 549. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 24.37 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. Draped bust right, wearing pearls bound on top of her head / Pietas standing left, dropping incense onto lighted candelabrum-altar and holding acerrum. RIC III 1146A (Pius); Banti 87. Dark green patina, scratches, marks, smoothing, areas of roughness on reverse. VF.