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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7635230, member: 75937&quot;]I love it, [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll want to read Marvin Tameanko&#039;s &quot;The Funerary Architecture of Antoninus Pius.&quot; <a href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.23-No.05-May-2009.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.23-No.05-May-2009.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>The Celator</i>, May 2009</a>, pp. 6–18.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know your coin of Faustina gives us the earliest artistic representation of an imperial <i>ustrinum</i> on Roman coinage?[1,2] I have the dupondius version of the coin, one of the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-unassuming-rarity.376551/#post-6596968" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-unassuming-rarity.376551/#post-6596968">best cherry-picks I ever made</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-consecratio-funeral-pyre-dupondius-jpg.1045649/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140-141.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --; Strack 1238.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s her hubby&#039;s <i>ustrinum</i>!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-consecratio-denarius-jpg.1038722/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.26g, 17.2 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: DIVVS ANTONINVS, head of Antoninus Pius, bare, right, with drapery on left shoulder.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO, <i>ustrinum</i> of four tiers decorated with garlands and statues and surmounted by a quadriga.</p><p>Refs: RIC 438; BMCRE 60-64; RSC 164a; RCV 5193; MIR 24.</p><p>Notes: Also struck with a right-facing bare head (no drapery) portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Sear, David R. <i>Roman Coins and Their Values II: The accession of Nerva to the overthrow of the Severan dynasty AD 96 - AD 235</i>, London, Spink, 2002, p. 273.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Beckmann, Martin. <i>Diva Faustina: Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces.</i> American Numismatic Society, 2012, pp. 20-24.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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