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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2560590, member: 75937&quot;]Gerhard Rohde notes,</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This coin is part of a large hoard consisting of 673 pieces of Faustina II plus 4 coins of Crispina. It hit the market abt. 15 - 20 years ago without any information on site or circumstances how it was found. The coins were not cleaned but show a uniformly shiny patina. Many are extremely worn. Still, all coins are attributed with special consideration of die varieties. Nobody knows why this hoard consists of Faustina II. coins only (the 4 Crispina coins might have been taken erroneously in because in a worn state, they like very similar to Faustina coins.) </p><p><br /></p><p>My wild guess is that these coins were used as tokens, perhaps long after devaluation by Roman soldiers in a kind of poker game. The lucky winner went away with a leather bag full of these coins just to hide it somewhere before going into battle from which he did not made it back. Of course, this is guess-work only, there is absolutely no evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pautalia is represented with 76 different obverse dies of Faustina II. alone!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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