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Contributor: Mark Reid.
Issuer: FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. AR Denarius.
Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA, Draped bust right.
Reverse: VESTA, Vesta, veiled, seated right on seat, resting right arm on seat and holding sceptre in left hand.
Reference: RIC 401 var. Grade: XF.
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.