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Auction 128  23-25 Nov 2021
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Lot 2857

Estimate: 220 AUD
Price realized: 150 AUD
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Faustina Senior, wife of Antoninus Pius, posthumous issue, (died A.D. 140/1), AE sestertius, 33.5mm, (26.00 g), Rome mint, struck under Antoninus Pius, c.147 A.D., obv. draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head, around DIVA FAVSTINA, rev. Providentia standing left, holding globe and grasping veil, sewn with stars which billows out behind her head, around AETER NITAS, S C across field, (S.4610, RIC 1106 (Pius), BMC 1495, C.30). Very fine, with and even apple green patina and very rare as such.
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