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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3616680, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coins everybody.&nbsp; I just got a new Faustina II - it is rough, and common, but I thought it was interesting how the reverse &quot;O&quot; in &quot;CONCORDIA&quot; suffers from a filled-in die (I presume) and so looks like a solar disc (or a bowling ball) over her head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Poking around the web looking for other examples (and there are a lot of them), I noticed that very few have, like mine does, a continuous reverse legend.&nbsp; Most of them break for Concordia&#039;s head.&nbsp; Not a big deal, but flyspecking is slowly becoming one of my favorite things:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969006[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Faustina II&nbsp; &nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(154-156 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right / CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, holding flower and resting left arm on cornucopiae set on globe below seat.</p><p>RIC 502a; RSC 54; Sear 4704.</p><p>(3.02 grams / 17 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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