Watch List notes:

Contorniates, late 4th-early 5h century. Contorniate (Bronze, 37 mm, 19.20 g, 7 h), in the names of Nero, 54-68, and Diva Faustina Senior, † 140/1. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX Laureate head of Nero to right; before, monogram of PE (inlaid in silver). Rev. DIVA FAV-STINA AVG Veiled Diva Faustina Senior standing front, head to left, sacrificing from patera held in her right hand over lit altar to left. Alföldi 225.3 and pl. 98, 8 (this coin). Very rare. A beautifully patinated piece with a splendid pedigree. Light cleaning marks and very minor doubling, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72, 16 May 2013, 1735 (but without further pedigree) and from the collections of Virgil M. Brand, Part I, Sotheby's, 1 July 1982, 125, Theodor Prowe, Hess 141, 28 November 1912, 575, Hirsch XXIV, 1909 and Consul E. F. Weber, Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908, 2917 (described as 'Treffl. Pat. Prachtexemplar. sehr selten').