Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 22.44 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Near EF.

CNG Feature Auction 132
Lot: 800. Estimated: $ 500

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Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 22.44 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Draped bust right, wearing single band of pearls around head, hair drawn into chignon at back of head with locks on forehead / Venus standing left, holding apple and anchor, around which a dolphin is coiled. RIC III 1388c (Pius); Banti 137. Dark green-brown patina, minor deposits, light smoothing. Near EF. An attractive portrait.

Ex Lanz 163 (7 December 2016), lot 330 (since conserved).

Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger was born in about AD 129 to Antoninus Pius and his wife, Faustina the Elder. In AD 138, the emperor Hadrian arranged for her betrothal to Lucius Verus, also about eight. After Antoninus inherited the throne, he broke the engagement and instead betrothed her to his other adoptive son, Marcus Aurelius. The couple were wed in AD 145 to great rejoicing. Faustina was named Augusta in AD 147, replacing her late mother. Her coinage commences that year and continues for the next three decades, showing her passage from a fresh-faced princess to a mature matron, and providing a pageant of Roman feminine hairstyles over that span.

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