Another Veiled Bust Faustina I -- I just can't get enough!

That's right! I just can't get enough!



This middle bronze of Faustina I was likely issued in AD 150/51 as part of a massive issue to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Faustina's death and consecration.* It was issued with two bust types, a more common bare-headed and draped bust, right and a scarcer veiled and draped bust, right. This particular reverse design only appears in the sestertius, dupondius, and as denominations.

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Faustina I, AD 138--140/41.
Roman orichalcum dupondius, 11.73 g, 25 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 150/51.
Obv: DIVA FAV-STINA, veiled and draped bust, right.
Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over altar left and holding long lighted torch, vertical, in left.
Refs: RIC 1187 B; BMCRE 1594; Cohen 164; RCV 4652 var.

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*Dinsdale, Paul H. Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar AD 138-161: Antonine Coinage. Leeds, Paul H Dinsdale, 2018, p. 216.

 

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Great coin @Roman Collector . The veiled bust portrait is very cool but I unfortunately don’t have one. Instead here is my favorite Faustina I.

 

That's lovely! I still don't have a DEDICATIO AEDIS in my collection, which was issued AD 143-144 to commemorate the dedication of the temple to Diva Faustina.

 

Nice veiled bust of Faustina I, @Roman Collector.

Here are 2 of mine in her "regular" hair style.

 

Just love when one can see the details of her diademed head ornament, like the awesome ones shared by Curtisimo and happy_collector.

Have this posthumous issue, struck under the authority of Antoninus Pius:

Denarius, Rome, after 141 AD
16 x 17 mm, 3.71 g
RIC III Antoninus Pius 381 B a; Cohen (RSC) 159;

Ob.: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, Bust of Diva Faustina, diademed, draped, to right; hair elaborately waved in several loops around head and drawn up and coiled on top
Rev.: CONCORDIAE, Antoninus, on the left, standing to right, holding roll and clasping right hands with Faustina on the right, standing left and holding scepter

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Nice coin, @Roman Collector ! And I ALMOST forgot that song, until you posted it! LOL

Well, I only have ONE Faustina I, so you "just can't get enough" of this one as I will post it AGAIN!!!


RI Faustina Sr 138-140 CE after 146 CE DIVA AR Denarius m Antoninus Pius 17.4mm 3.2g Ceres torch fold RIC 362 RSC 104

 

..that's a nice'un RC....heck, no wonder we ain't got any(to no a'veil')...YOU'RE buyin'em all up