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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6540760, member: 75937&quot;]Update! I do now -- I was the successful bidder in yesterday&#039;s Artemide Aste auction. Mine differs slightly from [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER]&#039;s and [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER]&#039;s examples in that the empress on my coin does not have any strands of pearls in her hair. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think mine is an as by weight; it&#039;s less than 9 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Szaivert (p. 230) dates the coin to AD 161-164 (phase 2) and postulates the HILARITAS reverse types may have been issued in AD 162 to celebrate the birth of M. Annius Verus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262001[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman Æ As, 8.35 g, 25.0 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161-164.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: HILARITAS S C, Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm-branch in right hand and cornucopia in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1643 var.; BMCRE 982 var.; Cohen 113 var.; RCV 5296; MIR 15-7/10b.</p><p>Notes: This coin is a variety of the RIC, BMCRE and Cohen specimens in that Faustina wears no strands of pearls in the hair. </p><p><br /></p><p>Szaivert, Wolfgang, <i>Die Münzprägung der Kaiser Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus und Commodus (161/192)</i>, Moneta Imperii Romani 18. Vienna, 1989.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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