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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancient Aussie, post: 7635212, member: 80147&quot;]An interesting recent purchase depicts this Ustrina, in recent times is regarded as the correct terminology for what has traditionally been referred to by numismatists as a funeral pyre a term given for a wooden structure used for cremation. But in the early 1700&#039;s excavations near the column of Antoninus Pius reveled a 13sqm Podium surrounded by a double enclosure built of Travertine and marble believed to be the Ustrina for Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina, the structure on my coin could well be close to how this looked.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313356[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Diva Faustina Senior. </b>Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 25.11 g, 12h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. Draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head / Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by charioteer in biga right. RIC III 1135 (Pius); Banti 61 var. (break in obv. legend). Brown surfaces, some deposits. Fine. Ex CNG e/auction 491 lot 405.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show me your Ustrina, Funeral Pyre, Wedding cake or whatever you want to call it....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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