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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4290903, member: 89514&quot;]Dear Roman Collector,</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the very interesting discussion of the chronology of Faustina II&#039;s hairstyles under Marcus!</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had responded earlier, for perhaps I can give you some help with the further topic you want to attack, the chronology of the same empress&#039; hairstyles under Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p>That topic has already been tackled and I think mainly solved by Strack in the third volume of his Untersuchungen. I have also studied this topic in great detail myself, in connection with my doubts about Fittschen&#039;s thesis that Faustina changed her hairstyle every time she bore Marcus another child. My study confirmed Strack&#039;s order of the hairstyles, and moreover established approximate dates for each of the hairstyles and for each of Faustina II&#039;s denarius rev. types from 147-c. 156, based on my reconstruction of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Caesar&#039;s denarius coinage of the same years, which is of course almost all exactly dated by tribunician numbers. Hopefully I can post my unpublished table of Faustina II&#039;s denarius coinage of 147-161 here sometime soon, after the easing of the coronavirus crisis if not earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding Faustina&#039;s coinage of 161-176, which I myself have never particularly researched, you might want to read Strack&#039;s discussion in that same third volume, where he briefly treats Faustina&#039;s later hairstyles though the volume covers only the coinage of Pius&#039; reign in detail. Strack finds four main hairstyles just like you, though apparently he reverses the order of your types 2a and 2b. All in German of course, but I understand that computer translations have improved greatly over the past decade or so. Another suggestion: it might help to start with the hypothesis that the mint struck just one denarius rev. type at a time for Faustina II under Marcus, so the sequence of her hairstyles should allow one to arrange her rev. types in a strict order. That, in any case, was how the mint produced coinage for ladies in all of the reigns I have studied, for example Faustina under Pius, Domna under Septimius and Caracalla, Maesa, Soemias, and the wives under Elagabalus, Mamaea under Sev. Alexander, and Otacilia Severa under Philip I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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