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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7591578, member: 75937&quot;]Wow! That&#039;s Faustina I, btw, and it&#039;s RIC 1182, not 1183.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 1182 features Aeternitas with crescent on head, advancing l., r. hand holding starry mantle over head. Strack (1284) notes examples in Berlin, Paris, and the Vatican. I have been able to find only one example online, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6678805" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6678805" rel="nofollow">this one</a> sold by Dr. Busso Peus, Nachfolger, E-auction 10, lot 359, 18 January, 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307720[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 1183 features Aeternitas with crescent on head, advancing l., r. hand holding starry mantle over head, and lighted torch in l. hand. Strack (also 1284) notes examples in London, Vienna, the Vatican, and at the National Museum in Naples. Here&#039;s the version in London, <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1853-0627-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1853-0627-9" rel="nofollow">BMCRE 1587</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307719[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think yours has the torch in her left hand. It&#039;s almost certainly 1182.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, while both Cohen and Strack identify the reverse figure as Diana, Mattingly identifies her as Aeternitas. I do too because of the starry mantle. See my thoughts about this <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-i-denarius-scarce-aeternitas-type.317976/#post-3914349" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-i-denarius-scarce-aeternitas-type.317976/#post-3914349">here</a>. Here&#039;s a sestertius in my collection whose reverse figure is identified as Aeternitas by Cohen, Strack, and Mattingly. Compare her starry mantle to your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-aeternitas-aeternitas-globe-and-billowing-veil-sestertius-jpg.1031740/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 26.54 g, 33 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 150-161.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS, Aeternitas standing left, holding globe and raising above head a starry mantle.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1106; BMCRE 1495-97; Cohen 30; Sear 4610; Strack 1262; Dinsdale 020810.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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