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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8342187, member: 75937&quot;]I happened to come across a reproduction of this illustration while doing some Faustina research and think it&#039;s really cool!</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Do you have any of the coins depicted in this engraving? Let&#039;s see them! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479388[/ATTACH]</p><p>Giovanni Battista Piranesi, <i>Colonna eretta in memoria dell&#039;Apoteosi di Antonino Pio, e Faustina sua moglie, il di cui Piedestallo si vede inalzato sulla Piazza di Monte Citorio - </i>Rome, 1779, plate 2. <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-reconstruction-of-the-column-of-antoninus-pius-pl-1-and-a-reconstruction" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-reconstruction-of-the-column-of-antoninus-pius-pl-1-and-a-reconstruction" rel="nofollow">Collection of the Royal Academy of Art</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few of the coin types portrayed:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-aeternitas-s-c-aeternitas-seated-on-globe-mb-jpg.1278006/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 10.36 g, 28.05 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 150 or later.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS S C, Aeternitas, seated left on starry globe, extending right hand and holding transverse sceptre in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1159a_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1159a_as" rel="nofollow">1159a</a>; BMCRE <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_BNK-R-822" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_BNK-R-822" rel="nofollow">1551</a>-54; Cohen 22; Strack 1266; RCV 4639.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-aeternitas-s-c-temple-mb-lac-jpg.1380945/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman Æ as or dupondius, 10.28 g, 25.4 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 150.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS S C, hexastyle temple; within, figure seated front, raising right hand and holding vertical scepter in left; in pediment, uncertain figures; above, a quadriga, and at angles, Victories; in front, lattice fence; to left and right, statues on pedestals.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1168; BMCRE 1562-63; Cohen 66; RCV 4644; Strack 1259.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-consecratio-denarius-jpg.1038722/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.26g, 17.2 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: DIVVS ANTONINVS, head of Antoninus Pius, bare, right, with drapery on left shoulder.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO, <i>ustrinum</i> of four tiers decorated with garlands and statues and surmounted by a quadriga.</p><p>Refs: RIC 438; BMCRE 60-64; RSC 164a; RCV 5193; MIR 24.</p><p>Notes: Also struck with a right-facing bare head (no drapery) portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-consecratio-funeral-pyre-dupondius-jpg.1045649/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140-141.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --; Strack 1238.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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