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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4332122, member: 110350&quot;]I recently bought an example of what I believe is the same coin type that [USER=99177]@Marsman[/USER] posted to open this thread last fall: a denarius of a young Faustina II issued under her father Antoninus Pius.&nbsp; It&#039;s my first Faustina II coin other than a Diva Faustina II issued after her death, so I wanted one in which she looks young and lively.&nbsp; Not necessarily so easy to find!&nbsp; I particularly liked the portrait on this example -- even though it&#039;s quite different from the one on [USER=99177]@Marsman[/USER]&#039;s -- and it was a bargain (given that it&#039;s short of Very Fine condition), so I decided to buy it despite the relatively poor reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II [Junior] (wife of Marcus Aurelius &amp; daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, Rome mint, 147-149 AD (under Antoninus Pius). Obv. Draped bust right, single circlet of pearls around head, FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL / Venus standing left, holding apple in right hand and, in left hand, rudder set on dolphin, VENVS. RIC III [Antoninus] 517c, RSC II 266a, BMCRE [Antoninus] 1067. 18 mm., 3.45 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1098961[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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