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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3837692, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s right! I just can&#039;t get enough!</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]_6FBfAQ-NDE[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post anything you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019105[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138--140/41.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 11.73 g, 25 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 150/51.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAV-STINA, veiled and draped bust, right.</p><p>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.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1187 B; BMCRE 1594; Cohen 164; RCV 4652 var.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>*Dinsdale, Paul H. <i>Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar AD 138-161: Antonine Coinage.</i> Leeds, Paul H Dinsdale, 2018, p. 216.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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