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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3534919, member: 75937"]That is very interesting and certainly quite scarce. The coin is RIC 1179, Cohen 111 and BMC 1582, neither of which are listed as having a veiled bust as a variant. The three specimens from various museum collections at <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1179_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1179_as" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a> are all bare-headed as well. A <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+1179&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+1179&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">search at acsearchinfo</a> yields no veiled busts, either, but it does show several specimens of RIC 1178 misidentified as 1179.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, BMC and RIC are several decades old and undoubtedly are incomplete when it comes to scarcer bust varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the British Museum specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]939514[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And the example in my own collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]939519[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're wondering what the Palladium and torch reverse (RIC 1178) looks like, this is an example (yours is not this coin):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]939530[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3534919, member: 75937"]That is very interesting and certainly quite scarce. The coin is RIC 1179, Cohen 111 and BMC 1582, neither of which are listed as having a veiled bust as a variant. The three specimens from various museum collections at [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1179_as']OCRE[/URL] are all bare-headed as well. A [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+1179&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=']search at acsearchinfo[/URL] yields no veiled busts, either, but it does show several specimens of RIC 1178 misidentified as 1179. Of course, BMC and RIC are several decades old and undoubtedly are incomplete when it comes to scarcer bust varieties. Here's the British Museum specimen: [ATTACH=full]939514[/ATTACH] And the example in my own collection: [ATTACH=full]939519[/ATTACH] If you're wondering what the Palladium and torch reverse (RIC 1178) looks like, this is an example (yours is not this coin): [ATTACH=full]939530[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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