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Message:: [QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 4660254, member: 87404"]I've always liked that portrait style and hair on your as you have there, RC. Here's a similar on a denarius... <img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/20190531_160249.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Faustina II, Wife of Marcus Aurelius who ruledAR Denarius, Struck under Antioninus Pius 145-161 AD, Rome mintObverse: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, Bust of Faustina the Younger, band of pearls round head, with hair waived and coiled on back of head, draped, right.Reverse: VENVS, Venus, draped, standing left, holding apple in right hand and rudder set on dolphin, which coils round it, in left.References: RIC III 517c And here is a worn middle bronze that I'm not sure I've shared here before...<img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190109_191039659.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Faustina II, Wife of Marcus AureliusAE As, Struck 161-176 AD, Rome mintObverse: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Bust of Faustina the Younger, draped, sometimes diademed, hair elaborately waved in nearly vertical lines and fastened in a low chignon at back of head round head, down cheek, curls, right.Reverse: FECVN-DITAS , Fecunditas, draped, standing right, holidng sceptre in right hand and infant in left arm, S-C across field.References: RIC III 1639[/QUOTE]