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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 8019101, member: 80783&quot;]They are indeed quite rare. I did a die study and could locate a total population of 104 Sestertii of Julia Paula in museums and auction catalogues (Banti knew of 50 specimens in 1987), while there are more than 2.000 Denarii known.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The total known population of genuine Roman mint coins of Annia Faustina seems to be just 5 (five) Denarii and 8 (eight) Sestertii (all from a single pair of dies, six of those in museums).</p><p><br /></p><p>My Annia Faustina is a (modernish but seemingly unique) struck bronze coin of Dupondius size, weight, and metal colour:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390304[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>ANNIA FAVSTINA AVGVSTA - bust right, wearing paludamentum, stephane on head</p><p>CONCORDIA S C - Elagabalus and Annia Faustina clasping hands, star in-between</p><p>26 mm / 9,81 gr / 6 h</p><p>struck brass “Dupondius”, ca. 1900 (?)</p><p>cf. RIC 399, BMCRE 451, Cohen 2, Sear RCV 7701, Banti 2 (all describing Sestertius)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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