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Contributor:
Mark Reid. |
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Issuer: |
FAUSTINA JUNIOR, wife of Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180. AR Denarius. |
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Obverse: |
FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right. |
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Reverse: |
CERES, Ceres, veiled, seated left, on chest, holding two corn-ears downwards and long torch. |
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Reference: |
RIC 669. Grade: XF/aXF. |
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Comments: |
For more information, read the "Marcus Aurelius" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on both Faustinas see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |