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Electronic Auction 416  14 Mar 2018
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Lot 437

Estimate: 200 USD
Price realized: 220 USD
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Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.41 g, 12h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. Veiled and draped bust right, wearing tutulus of pearls on top of her head / Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right. RIC III 1135b (Pius); Banti 63. Near VF, dark brown and green patina with traces of red, some roughness. Rare.

Ex Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 400, 28 June 2017), lot 653; Superior Galleries (22 August 1994), lot 2456.
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