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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4082959, member: 75937&quot;]What a lucky opportunity, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ! When dealing with rarities for a specialty collection, you can&#039;t be a condition crank -- the opportunity to acquire another example may never come in one&#039;s lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a rare but not pretty dupondius of Faustina I:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1064713[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 10.62 g, 28.1 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-161 (probably AD 150/51).</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAV-STINA, diademed, veiled and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETER-NITAS S C, Fortuna standing left, holding globe and rudder.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1160b; BMCRE4 1557 var. (bust); Cohen 9; RCV 4640 var. (bust); Strack 1267; ERIC II 356.</p><p><br /></p><p>Strack catalogs the coin as number 1267 and cites examples in the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Berlin, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, and the Nationalmuseum in Rome. The Paris specimen is, of course, the one cited by Cohen, which is in turn cited by RIC. Strack, Cohen and RIC (which cites Cohen without confirmation) fail to mention a stephane on the bust, but only note the presence of a veil. It&#039;s unclear if my example -- with a bust of Faustina wearing a stephane and veil -- is unique or whether Cohen and Strack are simply incomplete in their description. None of the specimens cited by Strack are photographed for online viewing and I am unable to confirm their existence or examine their bust types. No examples of the coin are to be found at Wildwinds, CoinArchives, acsearchinfo, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a>, <a href="http://www.coryssa.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coryssa.org/" rel="nofollow">Coryssa</a>, <a href="http://coinproject.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinproject.com/" rel="nofollow">The Coin Project</a>, <a href="http://www.coinscatalog.com/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinscatalog.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">CoinsCatalog</a>, or at V-Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This brings the census of known specimens to four:</p><p><br /></p><p>Veiled bust, unclear if stephane is present</p><blockquote><p>Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (Cited by Cohen/RIC and Strack)</p><p>Staatliches Münzkabinett in Berlin (Cited by Strack)</p><p>Nationalmuseum in Rome (Cited by Strack)</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Veiled and stephaned bust</p><blockquote><p>My coin.</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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