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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3153445, member: 75937&quot;]Flyspecking, I know. Nonetheless, I welcome your comments or any similar coins you&#039;d like to share.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a pair of bronze coins of Faustina II issued under Antoninus Pius and depicting Diana standing left, holding arrow and resting on bow.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sestertius is known with a variety of obverse inscriptions:</p><p><br /></p><p>FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL (BMCRE group III)</p><p>FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII FIL</p><p>FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F</p><p><br /></p><p>The third of these is noted under &quot;rare obverse types&quot; in BMCRE, pp. 381-2. The sestertius with this legend is assigned no. 2194:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808339[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the example from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808340[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?searchText=Faustina%202194&amp;ILINK|34484,|assetId=667299001&amp;objectId=1198108&amp;partId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?searchText=Faustina%202194&amp;ILINK|34484,|assetId=667299001&amp;objectId=1198108&amp;partId=1" rel="nofollow">BMC specimen</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808341[/ATTACH]</p><p>On the basis of the spacing and shapes of the letters in the obverse inscription, mine is a die-match to the British Museum specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808342[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, that inscription is described for the sestertius. HOWEVER, the middle bronze is only described in Cohen, RIC and BMCRE with these two inscriptions:</p><p><br /></p><p>FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL (BMCRE group III)</p><p>FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII FIL (see note p. 382 after no. 2194).</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet this example from my collection clearly reads FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F, as on the corresponding sestertius, above; it is therefore unlisted in BMCRE and RIC:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808346[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A search at acsearch info reveals two additional specimens, one struck from the same pair of dies as mine (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2367124" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2367124" rel="nofollow">Teutoberger specimen</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And a specimen sold by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2766011" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2766011" rel="nofollow">Heritage Europe</a>, struck from a different pair of dies (which is the exact same <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3927207" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3927207" rel="nofollow">coin sold by Numis.Be</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]808348[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular variant appears to be scarce, if not rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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