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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7615420, member: 75937&quot;]Informative and interesting thread, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER]! Cool coins, too!</p><p><br /></p><p>We know from Beckmann&#039;s die-linkage study* that these three types formed the first issue for Faustina II. The empress delivered her first baby, a girl named Domitia Faustina, on 30 November, AD 147 and was made Augusta the following day.</p><p><br /></p><p>The three types refer to childbirth: Venus Genetrix (&quot;Venus the Mother&quot;), Venus&#039; aspect as goddess of motherhood and domesticity; Juno Lucina (the aspect of Juno as goddess of childbirth); and LAETITIAE PVBLICAE (&quot;public rejoicing&quot;), celebrating cause for celebration.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-veneri-genetrici-as-jpg.931928/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 6.93 g, 26.1 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-148.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, bust of Faustina II, draped and wearing band of pearls, right.</p><p>Rev: VENERI GENETRICI S C, Venus standing facing, head left, holding up apple in right hand and holding child on left arm.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1407a; BMCRE p. 375 *; Cohen 238; Strack 1306; RCV 4734.</p><p>Notes: Die-match to specimens sold by CNG Jan. 7, 2014 and Künker Oct. 18, 2016.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-ivnoni-lvcinae-s-c-pius-as-jpg.1282865/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 8.68 g, 25.9 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-148.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, bust of Faustina II, draped and wearing band of pearls, right.</p><p>Rev: IVNONI LVCINAE S C, Juno, veiled, standing left, holding patera and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1400A; BMCRE 2153-54; Cohen --; Strack 1299; RCV 4728.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-laetitiae-pvblicae-denarius-jpg.1212567/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.03 g, 17.4 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 147-148.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: LAETITIAE PVBLICAE, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath in in right hand and vertical scepter in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 506a; BMCRE 1048; Cohen/RSC 155; Strack 491; RCV 4705; CRE 195.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Beckmann, Martin, <i>Faustina the Younger: Coinage, Portraits, and Public Image</i>, A.N.S. Numismatic Studies 43, American Numismatic Society, New York, 2021, pp. 23 ff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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