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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8133457, member: 75937"]If you're familiar with the way Roman matronly apparel is depicted on coins, you'll laugh at the way the folds of the goddess's stola are portrayed on this heavily tooled sestertius. Similarly, the "detail" on the empress's hairstyle was added by tooling. I've notified the auctioneer of my concerns. It's Bertolami <a href="https://auctions.bertolamifinearts.com/en/lot/121001/diva-faustina-senior-died-141-/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.bertolamifinearts.com/en/lot/121001/diva-faustina-senior-died-141-/" rel="nofollow">auction E 109 Lot 717</a>. [ATTACH=full]1416908[/ATTACH] For comparison, here's my well-circulated but unaltered example. I'd tell you it looks better in hand, but I'd be lying. In fact, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+1143&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Faustina+1143&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" rel="nofollow">here</a> are a hundred examples that demonstrate what Faustina's hair and Juno's clothes are supposed to look like. [ATTACH=full]1416909[/ATTACH]Faustina I, AD 138-140.Roman orichalcum sestertius, 25.48 g, 32.1 mm, 1 h.Rome, AD 150 - 161.Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.Rev: IVNO S C, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter.Refs: RIC 1143; BMCRE 1531-35; Cohen 210; Strack 1276; RCV 4629.[/QUOTE]

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