Watch List notes:

FAUSTINA SENIOR, wife of Antoninus Pius, (d.A.D. 141) silver denarius, (2.86 g), issued after 147, obv. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust to right, rev. CONSECRATIO, peacock walking to right head reverted, (S.4594, RIC 384, RSC 176) (illustrated); another, (3.13 g), rev. Aeternitas standing left holding a globe and sceptre, (S.4575, RIC 350a, RSC 34); another, (2.58 g), rev. Vesta standing left with altar before her, sacrificing, holding a palladium (cf.S.4587, RIC 370, RSC 116); Faustina Junior, wife of Marcus Aurelius, (d.A.D. 175), silver denarius, issued 154-6, (3.16 g), obv. around FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust to right of Faustina, rev. CONCORDIA, Concordia seated to left holding flower and resting arm on cornucopiae set on globe, (S.4704, RSC 54, RIC 502a). Toning, very fine. (4)


Ex Dr V.J.A. Flynn Collection.