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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8201308, member: 99456&quot;]A beautiful aureus with charming warmth and an excellent write-up, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER].&nbsp; Related to the birth of Lucilla, I have this Faustina II about which Beckmann concludes&nbsp; by alignment of &quot;Die Link Chain 2&quot; with coins of Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Thus it appears that these coins commemorate a single female child in AD 149, most probably Lucilla.&nbsp; An inscription preserving a list of holidays in the city of Gortyna in Crete gives Lucilla&#039;s birthday as March 7th&quot;.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1437179[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Faustina II</b>, AR denarius, Rome, AD 149</p><p><b>Obv: </b>FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI PII AVG FIL, draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>CONCORDIA, Concordia standing facing, head right, holding cornucopiae and raising skirt</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.500Bb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.500Bb" rel="nofollow">500Bb</a> (my coin has FAVSTINA in place of FAVSTINAE); Beckmann portrait type 2 Die link Chain 2[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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