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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7782969, member: 85693&quot;]Wow.&nbsp; Impressive even by Faustina Friday&#039;s high standards.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As usual, mine are scruffy, but I&#039;ll share some of mine from these early issues.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to fine-tune dates on these, based on the OP.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A Pudicitia issue - RIC 1381, I think.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335452[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(c. 147-150 A.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>FAVSTINAE AVG PII [AVG FIL], draped bust right / [PVDICITIA], Pudicitia seated</p><p>left, drawing out veil with right hand, left hand in lap, S C in field.</p><p>RIC 1381; BMCRE 2143.</p><p>(26.33 grams / 29 x 27 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2020</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two poor specimens of the Venus standing with apple and rudder, both sestertii (RIC 1388B):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335453[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335454[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(145-161 A.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[FAVSTINAE] AVG [PII AVG FIL], draped bust right / [V]E[NVS] S C, Venus standing left holding an apple &amp; rudder about which a dolphin is coiled.</p><p>RIC 1388B.</p><p>(22.64 grams / 29 x 26 mm)</p><p>(19.51 grams / 31 x 28 mm)</p><p>eBay July 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an early as (FIL), though not in the dative: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335455[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ As </b></p><p><b>(c. 145-146 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / AVGVSTI [PII] FIL S-C, Concordia standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC 1390.</p><p>(9.94 grams / 23 mm)</p><p>eBay April 2019</p><p><br /></p><p>A denarius with LAETITIAE PVBLICAE - perhaps my favorite portrait of her (in my collection, I mean):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335456[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(147-149 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right with double circlet of pearls /</p><p>LAETITIAE PVBLICAE, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and sceptre.</p><p>RIC 506b; RSC 155a.</p><p>(2.95 grams / 18 mm)</p><p>eBay Apr. 2018</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve shared this before - a late issue but with an inexplicable dative FAVSTINAE: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1335459[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(161-176 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>FAVSTINAE [AVGVSTAE], draped bust right. / [DIANA LVCIFERA SC] Diana standing right holding long torch in both hands. </p><p>RIC 1630 var. (FAVSTINAE); Cohen 88; BMC 899.</p><p>(21.44 grams / 27 mm)</p><p>eBay May&nbsp; 2019 (France)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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