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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7467855, member: 75937&quot;]Wow! I&#039;m happy for you, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]! It&#039;s a fantastic feeling to finally acquire a long-coveted coin! Any of the Judea Capta coins are in high demand, even from the Rome mint, and competition is always fierce at auction or the prices are high at retail shops. I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve seen an example of that coin from the Lugdunum mint before. </p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a personal white whale and it&#039;s a worn one. It&#039;s merely scarce, not rare, and Clio wouldn&#039;t have any trouble obtaining one. Examples come up at auction a few times a year and there are even <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&amp;searchQuery=Faustina+753&amp;searchQueryExclude=&amp;searchCategory=0&amp;searchCategoryLevel=2&amp;searchCategoryAncient=True&amp;searchCategoryUs=True&amp;searchCategoryWorld=True&amp;searchCategoryMedieval=False&amp;searchBetween=0&amp;searchBetweenAnd=0&amp;searchDate=&amp;searchUseThesaurus=True&amp;searchDisplayCurrency=&amp;searchDisplay=1&amp;searchIdStore=0&amp;searchQueryAnyWords=&amp;searchExactPhrase=&amp;searchTitleAndDescription=True&amp;searchDateType=0&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;SearchOnSale=False&amp;Unassigned=False" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&amp;searchQuery=Faustina+753&amp;searchQueryExclude=&amp;searchCategory=0&amp;searchCategoryLevel=2&amp;searchCategoryAncient=True&amp;searchCategoryUs=True&amp;searchCategoryWorld=True&amp;searchCategoryMedieval=False&amp;searchBetween=0&amp;searchBetweenAnd=0&amp;searchDate=&amp;searchUseThesaurus=True&amp;searchDisplayCurrency=&amp;searchDisplay=1&amp;searchIdStore=0&amp;searchQueryAnyWords=&amp;searchExactPhrase=&amp;searchTitleAndDescription=True&amp;searchDateType=0&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;SearchOnSale=False&amp;Unassigned=False" rel="nofollow">a few available at V coins right now</a>. The problem for me has always been finding one that fit my budget. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was the successful bidder on this one earlier this year for a hammer price I could afford. It took more than two months to arrive from Spain, but it now happily resides in my <i>numophylacium Faustinae!</i> It&#039;s special because Faustina was the first empress to be awarded the title of <i>Mater Castrorum</i>, &quot;the mother of the camps.&quot; This posthumous issue honors her with that title. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-matri-castrorvm-denarius-vico-jpg.1251683/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 2.80 g, 18.1 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, third posthumous issue, AD 176 and later.</p><p>Obv: DIVAE FAVSTINAE PIAE, veiled and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: MATRI CASTRORVM, Faustina II seated left, holding phoenix on globe in right hand and transverse scepter in left hand; before her, two standards.</p><p>Refs: RIC 753 corr.; BMCRE 705; Cohen 161 corr.; RSC 161; RCV 5220; MIR 49-4/19; CRE 175.</p><p>Notes: Cohen (corrected by Seaby in RSC), cited without correction by RIC, reports Faustina&#039;s portrait as diademed as well as veiled -- an error, probably caused by the added prominence the die engravers give to the front edge of the veil.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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