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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8215470, member: 75937&quot;]I would laugh at <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=767662" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=767662" rel="nofollow">this attempt</a> to increase the technical grade of this middle bronze of Faustina the Younger if it didn&#039;t make me so angry.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441973[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the unadulterated version from my collection. I believe mine is a reverse die match to the Peus coin, above, so you can see the changes made by tooling. The obverse has been even more egregiously altered, giving the empress a hairstyle she never actually wore. When you look at the inscription, it might have been an obverse die match to mine, too, but it&#039;s been changed so much it&#039;s hard to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-venvs-s-c-apple-and-scepter-mb-long-obv-inscr-type-3-hairstyle-romae-aeternae-jpg.1381323/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman Æ as or dupondius, 9.96 g, 26 mm, 7 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rome, mid AD 151-mid AD 152.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG PII FIL, bare-headed and draped bust, right (Beckmann type 3 hairstyle).</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: VENVS S C, Venus standing left, holding apple and scepter.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RIC 1408(6); BMCRE 2170-72; Cohen 251; RCV --; Strack 1311.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Someone wasted 200 Euro on the toolie, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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