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454, Lot: 366. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.17 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, veiled, diademed, and draped bust right / AVGV STA, Ceres, veiled, draped, standing left, holding torch in right hand and scepter in left. RIC III 356 (Pius; omits diademed); Beckmann dies df39/CA9; Calicó 1764 (same obv. die as illustration); Biaggi 813 var. (bust type). Some hairlines and a couple of minor edge marks. VF.


From the Alpine Collection.