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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7851205, member: 99456&quot;]Happy Faustina Friday, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER].&nbsp; Thanks for another educational episode in the &quot;Coins of Faustina&quot; series.&nbsp; Here is a coin that I hope you find appropriate to your theme: &quot;<i><b>coins that may be confused with similar issues</b>&quot;.&nbsp; </i>I liked the portrait.&nbsp; I think the die engraver may have forgotten which Faustina he was engraving and compared to other coins of this type: he left out part of the veil.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1352066[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II</b>, Augusta AD 147-175, AR denarius, Rome</p><p><b>Obv:</b> FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, Bust of Faustina the Younger, bare-headed, with hair waived and coiled on back of head, draped, right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> PVDICITIA, Pudicitia, veiled, draped, standing left, with right hand drawing out fold of robe in front of face and with left gathering up fold of skirt</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.507A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.507A" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius 507a</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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