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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 991

Estimate: 10 000 GBP
Price realized: 9500 GBP
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Diva Faustina I (wife of A. Pius) AV Aureus. Rome, AD 141-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, diademed and draped bust to right / AVGVSTA, Ceres standing facing, veiled head to left, holding lit torches in her upraised hands. RIC III 357a (Pius); C. 75; BMCRE 403 (Pius); Calicó 1758b. 7.13g, 20mm, 6h.

Mint State; lustrous, a splendid portrait struck in exceptionally high relief.

Ex Long Valley River Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XX, 30 October 2020, lot 613;
Ex L. Harold Collection, Hess-Divo AG, Auction 324, 23 October 2013, lot 29;
Ex Émile Bourgey, 26 November 1956, lot 107.
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