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Contributor: Mark Reid.
Issuer: FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. AR Denarius.
Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA, Draped head right.
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Vesta, veiled, standing left, sacrificing with patera over lighted altar and holding palladium.
Reference: RIC 370. Grade: aXF.
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.