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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8058054, member: 75937"]Interesting thread, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER]. Official perhaps, but with an apprentice die-engraver working on the reverse dies???</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an imitative issue in my Faustina I subcollection. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietati-avg-imitation-denarius-jpg.1158505/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Unofficial imitative issue, 3.19 g, 17.6 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Ca. AD 140-160?</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETATI AVG, Pietas, veiled and draped, standing left, dropping incense from right hand onto lighted altar and holding box in left hand.</p><p>Refs: Cf. BMC p. 67, † note, RSC 234b, CRE 113 and Strack 462 (Budapest), all of which read PIETAS AVG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8058054, member: 75937"]Interesting thread, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER]. Official perhaps, but with an apprentice die-engraver working on the reverse dies??? Here's an imitative issue in my Faustina I subcollection. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietati-avg-imitation-denarius-jpg.1158505/[/IMG] Faustina I, AD 138-140. Unofficial imitative issue, 3.19 g, 17.6 mm, 6 h. Ca. AD 140-160? Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: PIETATI AVG, Pietas, veiled and draped, standing left, dropping incense from right hand onto lighted altar and holding box in left hand. Refs: Cf. BMC p. 67, † note, RSC 234b, CRE 113 and Strack 462 (Budapest), all of which read PIETAS AVG.[/QUOTE]
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