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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7623077, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] for the reference.&nbsp; Although I decided to buy a hardbound copy, I also found a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/read/507075287/Faustina-the-Younger-Coins-Portraits-and-Public-Image" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.scribd.com/read/507075287/Faustina-the-Younger-Coins-Portraits-and-Public-Image" rel="nofollow">digital copy at scribd.com</a>.&nbsp; The discussions, die chains, classification of portraits, and die metrics are all useful and interesting.&nbsp; Although it is only Monday, here is the coin of Faustina that prompted the reading: Beckmann Type 1a with 3 bangs and band of pearls from the year after the arrival of her first child and elevation to Augusta in December 147.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311817[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Faustina II</b>, AR denarius (3.59g, 18mm), Augusta, AD 147-175, Rome, under Antoninus Pius, circa AD December 147 and March 149</p><p><b>Obv:</b> FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust of Faustina II right, hair tied in bun at back of head, single circlet of pearls around</p><p><b>Rev: </b>V-E-NVS, Venus standing facing, head left, holding apple and rudder with dolphin entwined</p><p><b>Ref:</b> <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.515A_denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.515A_denarius" rel="nofollow">RIC 515a</a>; Strack 520; <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69980/page/n361/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69980/page/n361/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">BMC 1067</a>; RSC 261</p><p><b>Notes:</b> more on this coin here - <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/faustina-the-younger" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/faustina-the-younger" rel="nofollow">Faustina the Younger</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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