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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3569520, member: 85693&quot;]I thought I&#039;d keep this thread going, since I am once again baffled by Faustina...</p><p><br /></p><p>I just got a new Faustina I that I can&#039;t attribute.&nbsp; It is an As, with AETERNITAS on the reverse.&nbsp; OCRE leads me to believe it is this, RIC 1161 (but they have no illustrations):</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1161_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1161_as" rel="nofollow">RIC III Antoninus Pius 1161 (as)</a></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Date AD 141</p><p>Denomination As</p><p>Mint Rome</p><p>Obverse</p><p>DIVA FAVSTINA: Bust of Faustina I, draped, right, hair elaborately waved and coiled in bands across head and drawn up at back and piled in a round coil on top.</p><p>Reverse</p><p>AETERNITAS S C: Pietas, standing left, riasing (sic) right hand and holding box of incense</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is, every example of RIC 1161 I find online (including several examples on FORVM) there is an altar to the left.&nbsp; Mine has no altar.&nbsp; The one with the altar is RIC 1160 (according to OCRE - but with no examples shown).</p><p><br /></p><p>Compounding the confusion, OCRE has a reverse that matches mine - but erroneously lists two examples under RIC 1162 (described as holding a globe) - there is no globe on either example they show -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1162a_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1162a_as" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1162a_as</a></p><p><br /></p><p>here is one of them:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]950228[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Compounding my confusion, Wildwinds shows RIC 1162 looking just like mine and describing it just like mine - no globe.&nbsp; So OCRE is wrong describing the globe (but using correct examples)?&nbsp; If Wildwinds is right, then I have my attribution - but this is the only place I could find a match, with the rest of the Internet saying otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>A dupondius version with altar was posted on CT and attributed as RIC 1161 as well:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-sr-dupondius.280631/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-sr-dupondius.280631/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-sr-dupondius.280631/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The other question I have is this:&nbsp; on my example, she appears to be holding a branch or corn ears or something (not a globe).&nbsp; If that is only her hand, the celator really got sloppy (in an otherwise fairly well-engraved die)- it is a huge lobster claw like something outta John Carpenter&#039;s <i>The Thing</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]950232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the whole thing.&nbsp; It weighs 10 grams.&nbsp; Thanks to some pitting, Fasutina has a hipster chinstrap beard.&nbsp; Help, please!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]950227[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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