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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8268993, member: 75937&quot;]Cool, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]! This is the first issue for Faustina I, issued before Antoninus Pius had been given the title of Pater Patriae -- there is no &quot;P P&quot; at the end of the obverse legend. Subsequent issues bear the obverse inscription FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG P P.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-concordia-avg-no-pp-seated-denarius-jpg.1208024/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 2.85 g, 16.6 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, first issue, July 138 - end February 139.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG, bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina, right.</p><p>Rev: CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and resting left arm on throne, cornucopiae under chair.</p><p>Refs: British Museum 1978, 0314.2; cf. Strack 391 (Ashmolean), Hunter 1 (GLAHM 26918). RIC --; Cohen --; RCV --; CRE --.</p><p>Notes: BMC p. 8* cites Strack 392 in error; RSC 146b correctly cites Strack 391 and cites BMC p.8*. Obverse die-match to the <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1978-0314-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1978-0314-2" rel="nofollow">British Museum specimen</a> acquired in 1978.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a later issue for comparison. Note the P P at the end of the obverse inscription.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459285[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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