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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3134897, member: 75937&quot;]I love Faustina I&#039;s coins. She was the first empress for whom a very extensive posthumous coinage was issued -- quite literally hundreds of issues by Antoninus Pius after her death. Yours has a lot going for it. As you say, the veiled busts are less typical for her coinage. This particular coin comes in a bare-headed version (RSC 61a); in additon, the same throne, peacock and scepter device is also to be found on denarii with the legend AVGVSTA, both with bare-headed and veiled portraits (RSC 132a and 132c, respectively; they are each very rare).</p><p><br /></p><p>Your particular coin (with the veiled bust) comes in two obverse legend varieties of unclear significance: BMCRE 387, reading DIVA-FAVSTINA, and BMCRE 388 (yours), reading DIVAFAV-STINA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine -- BMCRE 387:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]800355[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the British Museum&#039;s example of yours, BMCRE 388:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]800360[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Wear doesn&#039;t bother me as long as the coin&#039;s attributable -- it&#039;s actually cool to think how many hands your coin passed through during the second century: the fingers of merchants, laborers, tax-collectors, prostitutes, priests, soldiers and sailors. Your coin&#039;s surface probably has traces of gladiator blood, centurion sweat, olive oil and pagan altar smoke![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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