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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3219954, member: 75937&quot;]Very interesting observation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1640 depicts Fecunditas standing LEFT:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838079[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That one actually has a broken legend, too, between FAVSTINA and AVGVSTA.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the case of coins issued more than 150 years later, there is no known significance to the presence of a broken or unbroken legend on Antonine issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>BMCRE4 makes several distinctions between bust types on the sestertii of Faustina II, but does not note any difference in obverse legend, which is FAVSTINA AVGVSTA on this issue:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838080[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that Mattingly distinguishes 6 different portrait types, but only one obverse inscription, broken between FAVSTINA and AVGVSTA.</p><p><br /></p><p>In contrast, he describes in detail the many different variations in the breaks in the letters of the reverse inscriptions on the six examples in the British Museum collection (which you can see <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Faustina%201638" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Faustina%201638" rel="nofollow">here</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838084[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the example in my own collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]838086[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 21.28 g, 31.9 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 1661-175.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, wearing double strand of pearls.</p><p>Rev: FECVNDITAS SC, Fecunditas standing right, holding scepter and infant.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1638; BMCRE 905-910; Cohen 100; RCV 5274.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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