Watch List notes:

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.18 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-164. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, wearing stephane / SALVTI AVGVSTAE, Salus seated left, leaning left arm on chair, holding in right hand a patera from which she feeds a serpent coiled around altar. RIC III 717 (Marcus Aurelius); MIR 18, 30-5b; Calicó 2074; BMCRE 154 (Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus); Biaggi 935 var. (no stephane). EF, toned, underlying luster.


From the Continental Collection.