DIVA AVG FAVSTINA: Bust of Faustina I, draped, right, hair elaborately waved in several loops round head and drawn up and coiled on top.
Reverse
FAVSTI NIANAE| PUVELLAE: Two-story building with scroll and ornament; in top, scribe writing on low table before Antoninus and Faustina; in bottom story, nine young women, two with infants
Diameter (in mm)
20.0
Weight (in gr.)
7.19
Reference
BMC 324, RIC III Antoninus Pius 397
Provenance
Leu 22, 8-9 May 1979, 268 = Raymond 1953 (J. P. Morgan) 140 =˚Sangiorgi, 22 April 1907 (Strozzi), 1915.
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P: Head of Nero, laureate, right; small globe at point of neck
Reverse
ROMA S C: Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated, left on cuirass, holding Victory in right hand and resting left on parazonium: behind cuirass two round shields and one oblong
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P: Head of Nero, laureate, right; small globe at point of neck
Reverse
ROMA S C: Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated, left on cuirass, holding Victory in right hand and resting left on parazonium: behind cuirass two round shields and one oblong
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P: Head of Nero, laureate, right; small globe at point of neck
Reverse
ROMA S C: Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated, left on cuirass, holding Victory in right hand and resting left on parazonium: behind cuirass two round shields and one oblong