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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4502484, member: 75937&quot;]That IS a nicely-rendered portrait, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ! Nice addition to your collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the Antonines, it&#039;s unusual to find a left-facing bust, and it is always as a variant, never as the normal type. This one is quite scarce; it is not listed in Cohen (who does note a variety with a left-facing bust, but without the S C on the reverse; Cohen 259*) nor in Sear. The British Museum has an <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1198141&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+2165&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1198141&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+2165&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">example in their collection</a>. Strack cites the British Museum example as well as specimens in the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Vienna, the Galeria Esterase in Modena, and one sold by <a href="https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/annotations/feuardent-freres" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/annotations/feuardent-freres" rel="nofollow">Feuardent Frères</a> (4 Rue de Louvois, Paris). Another example was sold by Numismatik Naumann Auction 72, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5631733" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5631733" rel="nofollow">lot 368</a> on February 3, 2019 to CT&#039;s own [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER]. I have not been able to find other examples in the numismatic literature or online.</p><p><br /></p><p>They appear to have been struck with the same obverse die; in addition, mine is a double die-match to the Naumann example but not to the BMC specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-venvs-left-bust-as-2-jpg.986617/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 9.85 g, 26.0 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-150.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, Bust of Faustina II, draped, with band of pearls, left.</p><p>Rev: VENVS S C, Venus standing right, drawing veil from shoulder with right hand and holding up apple in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1410b (l.); BMCRE 2165; Cohen --; Strack 1304; RCV --.</p><p><br /></p><p>* [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] (FORVM`s Classical Numismatics Discussion Board–Topic: Left facing Faustina II bust) sees nothing &quot;medallic&quot; about this specimen, but considers it identical with mine, but with S C removed by tooling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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