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E-Sale 57  30 May 2019
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Lot 669

Estimate: 350 GBP
Price realized: 360 GBP
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Diva Faustina I (wife of A. Pius) and Galerius Antoninus Æ22 of the Koinon of Cyprus. Circa AD 140. ΘEA ΦAYCTЄINA, draped bust of Diva Faustina right / Μ ΓΑΛЄΡIOC ANTѠNINOC AYTOKΡATOΡOC ANTONINOY YIOC, bare-headed, draped bust of Galerius Antoninus right. Lindgren III 940; Cohen 2 (Galerius and Faustina); Vagi 1517. 10.46g, 22mm, 1h.

Very Fine; heavily tooled and smoothed. Scarce.

From the inventory of a European dealer.

One of two sons of Antoninus Pius and Faustina I who died in infancy, Galerius Antoninus was buried in the Mausoleum of Hadrian, an ancient monument which remains standing in Rome to this day, though now known as Castel Sant'Angelo.
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