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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8231373, member: 75937&quot;]Thanks for your contribution to my post, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! </p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is an example of a very interesting issue. It comes in two different obverse legends, the expected DIVA FAVSTINA inscription, but also with an anachronistic use of the DIVA AVG FAVSTINA inscription. Here are the examples of each from my own collction.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-diva-favstina-consecratio-ceres-denarius-jpg.1370020/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.07 g, 18.6 mm, 5h.</p><p>Rome, c. AD 155-161.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO, Ceres (?) standing left, raising right hand and holding short torch in left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 382b; BMCRE 467-69; Cohen 165; Strack 452; RCV 4593; CRE 86.</p><p>Notes: Cohen erroneously describes the specimen in the BnF as having a veiled bust, though Strack describes the same specimen correctly. RIC cites Cohen’s description of the bust type uncritically, which is corrected in BMCRE.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-diva-avg-favstina-consecratio-ceres-denarius-jpg.1370021/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.06 g, 17.5 mm, 5h.</p><p>Rome, c. AD 155-161.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO, Ceres (?) standing left, raising right hand and holding short torch in left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 382a; BMCRE 301; Cohen 166; Strack 424; RCV –; CRE 87.</p><p>Notes: The earlier DIVA AVG FAVSTINA legend of AD 140-145 was reintroduced on a few issues of the late 150s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have written about the anachronistic use of the DIVA AVG FAVSTINA legend <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-late-denarius-types-with-early-obverse-legends.387138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-late-denarius-types-with-early-obverse-legends.387138/">here</a>. The coins are dated to the &quot;late 150s&quot; by Beckmann (p. 71), so a bit more specific than Dinsdale (after 150).</p><p><br /></p><p>And yep, that&#039;s supposed to be Ceres&#039; empty and open right hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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