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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4250065, member: 75937"]You have something VERY special, [USER=111251]@S.Triggs[/USER] . That Faustina II as/dupondius is very rare. Its reverse inscription reads SALVTI AVGVSTAE S C and features Salus STANDING, feeding with a patera held in her right hand a serpent, which arises from an altar, and holding a scepter with her left hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC lists it as no. 1672 and cites Cohen 205.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084459[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Cohen notes it is not in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, but cites a specimen in Vienna (The <b>V</b> before M.B., which stands for moyenne bronze [middle bronze, i.e. an as or dupondius]).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084465[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At the time Mattingly wrote volume IV of the catalog of the holdings in the British Museum, that museum did not have a specimen in their collection. He notes (p.542) that Cohen reports a specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084466[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The museum finally acquired a <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1468934&partId=1&searchText=Faustina+1672&page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1468934&partId=1&searchText=Faustina+1672&page=1" rel="nofollow">specimen</a> (apparently with an illegible reverse legend) in 1985, which was found in 1984 at Stonea Grange in Cambridgeshire. The coin is not photographed, unfortunately.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is not to be found at <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+SALVTI&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+SALVTI&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">acsearchinfo</a>, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1672" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1672" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a>, or at <a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/faustina_II/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/faustina_II/i.html" rel="nofollow">Wildwinds</a>. This indicates that no copies have been sold at major auctions in the past few decades and none of the major university and museum collections of Europe and North America have an example. Paul Dinsdale ([USER=110988]@paulus_dinius[/USER] ), in his very comprehensive but as-yet-unpublished <a href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20161-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20161-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf" rel="nofollow">catalog of Antonine coinage</a>, notes "Uncertain. Cohen cites a specimen in Vienna. Confirmation required" (p. 66). He does not have a photograph of the coin (if he did, its existence wouldn't be "uncertain," would it?).</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, your photograph above is the only illustration online of what appears to be a very rare coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are thus three known specimens:</p><p><br /></p><p>The one in the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Vienna cited by Cohen.</p><p>The one in the British Museum found in Cambridgeshire in 1984.</p><p>Your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to bring this coin to the attention of [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] , who may be able to tell us more about whether other examples are known to exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>In contrast, RIC 1671, with Salus seated, is very common. I have a low-grade example of that one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084467[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4250065, member: 75937"]You have something VERY special, [USER=111251]@S.Triggs[/USER] . That Faustina II as/dupondius is very rare. Its reverse inscription reads SALVTI AVGVSTAE S C and features Salus STANDING, feeding with a patera held in her right hand a serpent, which arises from an altar, and holding a scepter with her left hand. RIC lists it as no. 1672 and cites Cohen 205. [ATTACH=full]1084459[/ATTACH] Cohen notes it is not in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, but cites a specimen in Vienna (The [B]V[/B] before M.B., which stands for moyenne bronze [middle bronze, i.e. an as or dupondius]). [ATTACH=full]1084465[/ATTACH] At the time Mattingly wrote volume IV of the catalog of the holdings in the British Museum, that museum did not have a specimen in their collection. He notes (p.542) that Cohen reports a specimen. [ATTACH=full]1084466[/ATTACH] The museum finally acquired a [URL='https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1468934&partId=1&searchText=Faustina+1672&page=1']specimen[/URL] (apparently with an illegible reverse legend) in 1985, which was found in 1984 at Stonea Grange in Cambridgeshire. The coin is not photographed, unfortunately. The coin is not to be found at [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+SALVTI&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=']acsearchinfo[/URL], [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1672']OCRE[/URL], or at [URL='http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/faustina_II/i.html']Wildwinds[/URL]. This indicates that no copies have been sold at major auctions in the past few decades and none of the major university and museum collections of Europe and North America have an example. Paul Dinsdale ([USER=110988]@paulus_dinius[/USER] ), in his very comprehensive but as-yet-unpublished [URL='http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Marcus/04%20-%20Faustina%20II%20-%20Undated,%20161-176%20%28med_res%29.pdf']catalog of Antonine coinage[/URL], notes "Uncertain. Cohen cites a specimen in Vienna. Confirmation required" (p. 66). He does not have a photograph of the coin (if he did, its existence wouldn't be "uncertain," would it?). In short, your photograph above is the only illustration online of what appears to be a very rare coin. There are thus three known specimens: The one in the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Vienna cited by Cohen. The one in the British Museum found in Cambridgeshire in 1984. Your coin. I would like to bring this coin to the attention of [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] , who may be able to tell us more about whether other examples are known to exist. ~~~ In contrast, RIC 1671, with Salus seated, is very common. I have a low-grade example of that one: [ATTACH=full]1084467[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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