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Contributor: David Sorenson.
Issuer: FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. AE As (9.52 gm).
Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA, Draped bust right.
Reverse: AVGVSTA S. C., Ceres standing holding torch and sceptre.
Reference: RIC 1116 var. Grade: VF.
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.