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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4700767, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;ve wanted a lifetime issue of Faustina I for quite some time, but the impression I&#039;ve gotten is that considerably more than 90% of the Faustina I coins available are posthumous Diva Faustina issues. I finally saw one back in June that I liked enough to buy, and decided to do so even though the dealer is located in Germany. The dealer told me that there&#039;s no regular international mail service right now between Germany and the USA, but agreed to send the coin by DHL.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had such good experiences recently with DHL Express getting coins to me very rapidly from Spain, the UK, and Belgium, that I went ahead with the purchase and paid an extra fee for DHL shipping.&nbsp; But apparently, since DHL is a German company with all sorts of different services, the kind of DHL &quot;Premium&quot; service the dealer used was not the DHL Express service I had in mind and had told the dealer I wanted: instead of delivering the coin to me directly, DHL delivered it to the US Post Office in New York.&nbsp; Where it sat in ISC for more than a month, until I finally received it yesterday.&nbsp; I like the coin, but I don&#039;t think I&#039;ll be buying anything from Germany anymore unless and until things get back to normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is it:</p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina I [Senior] [wife of Antoninus Pius], AR Denarius 139-Oct 140 AD [lifetime issue], Rome Mint. Obv. Diademed and draped bust right, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA / Rev. Concordia standing left, holding patera with extended right hand and double cornucopiae with left arm, CONCORDIA AVG. RIC III 335 Antoninus Pius, RSC II 151, Sear RCV II 4668 (ill.), BMCRE 133, Dinsdale 008710 [Dinsdale, Paul H., <i>Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar AD 138-161: Antonine Coinage</i> (2018) at p. 99; photo at p. 100] [see <a href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Antoninus/04%20-%20Faustina%20I%20-%20Undated%20139-140%20%28med_res%29.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Antoninus/04%20-%20Faustina%20I%20-%20Undated%20139-140%20%28med_res%29.pdf" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #000000">http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Antoninus/04%20-%20Faustina%20I%20-%20Undated%20139-140%20%28med_res%29.pdf</span></a>&nbsp; pp. 10-11]. 19 mm., 2.84 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Seller&#039;s image -- the coin in hand looks much better than in this photo.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1154677[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone has any other Faustina I lifetime issues that haven&#039;t already been posted in this thread -- which dates back to before I joined Coin Talk at the end of January, but I thought it was better to revive it than begin my own -- I&#039;d love to see them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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