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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5275643, member: 75937&quot;]My gift arrived in today&#039;s mail! Io Saturnalia!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>My Secret Saturn knows what I like and sent me this posthumous issue of Faustina II! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Thank you so much!!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a cool coin. It bears the fourth and final obverse legend for the empress, DIVA FAVSTINA PIA. Dating this coin is difficult, but is probable that coins continued to be issued for Diva Faustina until the death of Aurelius in 180, and possibly into the early period of the reign of Commodus. A date of 176-180 or later is suggested.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse die has seen some use and there is a cud in front of the empress&#039; nose indicative of a die break.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1220829[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 161-175.</p><p>Roman orichalcum Sestertius, 19.75 g, 30.0 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 176 or later.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Altar-enclosure, with door in front and antefixae visible on corners above.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1706; BMCRE 1579-81; Cohen 76; RCV 5230; MIR 60-6/10.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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