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Contributor:
Mark Reid. |
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Issuer: |
FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. AR Denarius. |
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Obverse: |
DIVA FAVSTINA, Draped bust right. |
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Reverse: |
AETERNITAS, Providentia standing front, head left, with veil blown out around it, holding globe, left hand on veil. |
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Reference: |
RIC 351. Grade: XF+. |
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Comments: |
For more information, read the "Antoninus Pius" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on both Faustinas see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |