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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8143308, member: 75937&quot;]A fantastic year for your collection, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]! All of these coins are museum quality, to be sure, but I&#039;m partial to Roman coins and thus my favorites were the temple of Vesta denarius, the Faustina II sestertius, and the Brutus denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might be interested in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/">this article</a> I did last year, but note that I have subsequently learned about <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/#post-7605355" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-a-couple-of-anepigraphic-bronzes.369904/#post-7605355">unpublished research from Curtis Clay</a> that determined the FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F obverse legend was in use from 1 Jan 156 through July or August 156 and the dating of these coins can be known with greater precision than when I wrote the article. The short duration of this legend and placement in the chronological sequence is confirmed by Beckmann. This obverse titulature was limited to a single aureus reverse type -- Venus standing holding apple and scepter -- in a short die chain (die chain 4) and is followed immediately by the FAVSTINA AVGVSTA legend in die chain 5, (Beckmann, pp. 49-52).</p><p><br /></p><p>Moreover, the existence of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-–-an-interesting-mule.386814/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-–-an-interesting-mule.386814/">this mule</a> demonstrates this anepigraphic Diana type with the FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F obverse legend was the last in production in bronze when the obverse inscription changed to FAVSTINA AVGVSTA and the filiation was moved to the reverse c. August, AD 156.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the basis of style, I have to wonder if the die-engraver who engraved your obverse die in mid-156 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419824[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... was the same engraver responsible for this one in my collection dating to c. August, AD 160, after the birth of Cornificia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419825[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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