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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2873413, member: 88829&quot;]Annia Aurelia Faustina was a Roman Empress who has been scarcely noticed by ancient and modern Roman historians. She was of noble descent, daughter and only child of the wealthy heiress Annia Faustina and the Roman Senator, consul Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus. In 221AD she became the third wife of the Emperor Elagabalus for a brief marriage.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Potin Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.72 g, 12h). </b></p><p><b>Dated RegnalYear 5 (L Epsilon) of Elagabalus (AD 221). </b></p><p><b>Obv: Draped bust right / </b></p><p><b>Rev.: Conjoined busts of Nilus, (wearing grain ear wreath and with cornucopia), and Euthenia, (draped and wearing grain ear wreath) both facing right; L &lt;epsilon&gt; (date) to right.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/lrbguy/20170527_AFaustina-tet1-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The Imperial coinage issues in the name of Annia Faustina are of the greatest rarity, with only 6 attested surviving examples in silver, with a CONCORDIA (holding hands) denarius type. A sestertius with a similar reverse is also known. RSC notes a PIETAS type in silver with bust on crescent, but suggests it is a tooled Maesa double denarius. More examples are to be found among the Roman Provincial coinage, but anything in good condition is likely to exceed four figures. Still, there are interesting things out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>This next is the Claudius denarius I showed in an earlier thread.</p><p><b>Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus (41-42)</b></p><p><b>(<i>BMCRE</i> 13; <i>RSC</i> 6; <i>RIC</i> 2)</b></p><p><b>Minted at Rome</b></p><p><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/lrbguy/20170809_5-Claudius-den-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins were purchased from CNG this year and each topped $1600 delivered.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I have anything in the next tier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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