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.