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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8058270, member: 85693&quot;]Another great FF, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]&nbsp; As always, these send me back to my collection to see what I&#039;m going to learn from your post.&nbsp; I have managed to thoroughly confuse myself (PIETAS types tend to do this). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I had RIC 1161.&nbsp; It is in poor shape and I never bothered photographing it until today - it is raining here, so the lighting is terrible and my photo is worse than usual (I like to blame the Sun for my failings).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But now I see I am wrong - the obverse legend appears to be DIVA FAV... with what might be AVGVSTA to the right?&nbsp; The legends from 10-3 o&#039;clock have been reduced to copper hamburger.&nbsp; Not RIC 1161, whatever it is: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396525[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So now I am thinking it is RIC 1192Aa...but that is described as a candelabrum altar, and this one looks like a regular plain old altar.&nbsp; Although OCRE shows non-candelabrum altars as examples (OCRE has a way of baffling me this way).&nbsp; In general, I am confused...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two versions of RIC 1192 (so I think), one of which clearly has a candelabrum-type altar; one is veiled (my only middle bronze FI with a veil):</p><p><br /></p><p>Veiled (altar is obscure on this one): </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396531[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Faustina I&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ As / Dupondius</b></p><p><b>1st Phase: funeral, deification</b></p><p><b>(c. 140-143 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; Rome Mint</b></p><p>[DI]VA AVGVSTA FAVSTIN[A], veiled and draped bust right / [PIETAS AVG] S-C, Pietas standing left, holding incense box and dropping incense onto candelabrum-altar left.</p><p>RIC 1192Ab (as / dupondius)</p><p>(11.99 grams / 26 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2021&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not Veiled with candelabrum-type altar: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396532[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Faustina I&nbsp; Æ As / Dupondius</b></p><p><b>1st Phase: funeral, deification</b></p><p><b>(c. 140-143 A.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rome Mint</b></p><p>[DIVA] AVGVS-TA FAVSTIN[A], draped bust right / PIETAS AVG, S-C, Pietas</p><p>standing left, dropping incense onto candelabrum-altar and holding box of incense.</p><p>RIC 1192Aa; Cohen 241.</p><p>(11.97 grams / 28 mm)</p><p>eBay Aug. 2019 </p><p><br /></p><p>Argh.&nbsp; Thanks in advance as always. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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