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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3656511, member: 75937&quot;]<i>Post anything you feel is relevant! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>I am very happy to have won this at Heritage&#039;s latest auction. This variety with the left-facing bust is quite scarce and may have been struck with a single obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was struck under her father, Antoninus Pius, and bears the earliest form of obverse legend, FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, dating it to AD 147-150. A right-facing bust is the usual form of the coin; this one has a left bust. It is not listed in Cohen (who does note a variety with a left-facing bust, but without the S C on the reverse; Cohen 259) nor in Sear. The British Museum has an <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1198141&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+2165&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1198141&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+2165&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">example in their collection</a>. Another example was sold by Numismatik Naumann Auction 72, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5631733" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5631733" rel="nofollow">lot 368</a> on February 3, 2019. I have not been able to find other examples online.</p><p><br /></p><p>They appear to have been struck with the same obverse die; in addition, mine is a double die-match to the Naumann example but not to the BMC specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]986617[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 9.85 g, 26.0 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-150.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, Bust of Faustina II, draped, with band of pearls, left.</p><p>Rev: VENVS S C, Venus standing right, drawing veil from shoulder with right hand and holding up apple in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1410b (l.); BMCRE 2165; Cohen --; Sear --.</p><p><br /></p><p>The BMC specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]982716[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Naumann example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]982717[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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