126, Lot: 323. Estimate $150. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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DIVA FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius. Died 141 AD. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 22.71 g, 11h). Struck under Antoninus Pius, after circa 146 AD. Draped bust right, hair elaborately waved and piled in bun on top of head / Juno standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and long sceptre in left hand. RIC III 1143 (Pius); BMCRE 1532 (Pius); Cohen 210. VF, brown surfaces, smoothed.