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Auction 17  26 Oct 2018
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Lot 262

Estimate: 10 000 CHF
Price realized: 8000 CHF
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Diva Faustina Senior, died 140/1. Aureus (Gold, 20 mm, 7.24 g, 6 h), struck under Antoninus Pius, Rome, circa 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA Draped bust of Diva Faustina to right, her hair adorned with pearls and piled up on top of her head. Rev. AVGVSTA Ceres standing left, holding torches in her upraised hands. Beckmann dies df36/CB28 b. (this coin). Biaggi 807. BMC 405 (Antoninus Pius). Calicó 1758. Cohen 75. RIC 357a (Antoninus Pius). Strack 471. Toned. Extremely fine.

From the DeBakey Collection, ex Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015, 1111 and CNG 40, 4 December 1996, 1523, and from the collections of J. Pierpont Morgan, Stack's, 14 September 1983, 82 and the Marchese Carlo Strozzi, Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907, 1914, acquired prior to the 1880s.
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