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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4216867, member: 75937&quot;]Post anything you feel is relevant! </p><p><br /></p><p>This particular issue of Faustina I, depicting Pietas with her hands upturned in supplication, is scarce. While a handful of museum collections have an example of this coin,[1] no examples are to be found at acsearchinfo or Wildwinds. Pietas was a common motif on the coins issued for this empress. She appears on coins with the DIVA AVG FAVSTINA as well as DIVA FAVSTINA obverse inscriptions, with bare-headed and veiled busts, and with various reverse inscriptions, such as AVGVSTA, PIETAS AVG, and PIETAS AVGVST. She appears right-facing and left facing, raising both hands, or left-facing and holding her hand over a lighted altar or candelabrum with her right hand and holding a box of incense in her left or holding the left hand at her breast.[2] Many of these varieties are scarce to rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dating is uncertain. The ANS dates the coin to AD 141, whereas <a href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Antoninus/07%20-%20Diva%20Faustina%20I%20-%20Undated%20140-161%20%28med_res%29.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanpaulus.x10host.com/Antoninus/07%20-%20Diva%20Faustina%20I%20-%20Undated%20140-161%20%28med_res%29.pdf" rel="nofollow">Dinsdale</a> (p. 215; [USER=110988]@paulus_dinius[/USER] ) notes a die-linkage of one of the PIETAS types to a COS III aureus of Antoninus Pius, establishing a possible date of AD 143-145, corresponding to the second phase of issues for the empress to commemorate the dedication of the temple to Diva Faustina. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079922[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman AR denarius.</p><p>Rome, AD 141-145.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bust of Faustina I, veiled and draped, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVG, Pietas, veiled and draped, standing facing, head right, by lighted altar, raising both hands.</p><p>Refs: <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.392" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.392" rel="nofollow">RIC 392</a>; <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210486&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+308&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210486&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+308&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">BMCRE 308</a>; RSC 251b; Strack 430; RCV --; CRE 109; Dinsdale 019460.</p><p>Notes: Double die-match to <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1941.131.831" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1941.131.831" rel="nofollow">ANS 1941.131.831</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the ANS specimen for comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079940[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The British Museum, the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Munich, the Staatliches Münzkabinett in Vienna, the Nationalmuseum in Rome, and the American Numismatic Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. RSC 124, 124a, 234, 234a, 234b, 236, 237, 251, 251a, 251b.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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