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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4564869, member: 75937&quot;]Martin Beckmann’s <i>Diva Faustina: Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces</i>,* has clarified the dating and arrangement of the Diva Faustina coinage. Beckmann identified an almost complete sequence of die-linkages for the aurei, supported by additional shorter, but corroborative, die-linkages among the sestertii. In addition, Beckmann discovered several mules with reverse die-linkages to dated coins of Antoninus or Aurelius Caesar, which connected certain issues to other dated events. These studies enabled Beckman to produce a fairly comprehensive and reliable sequence of relative dating.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage is divided into five main phases commencing with the deification and funeral of Faustina. The portrait-type of Faustina wearing the stephane commences with the second phase of issues, from AD 143-145, issued in conjunction with the dedication of the Temple to Diva Faustina.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is known with three right-facing bust types -- bare-headed, veiled, and veiled with a stephane -- and one left-facing, with a veil and stephane.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130334[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 28.18 g, 33.1 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, second phase, AD 143-145.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bust of Faustina I, draped, veiled, right, with stephane.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted &#039;candelabrum-altar&#039;, left, and holding box in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1146Ac; BMCRE 1447-1450; Cohen --; Strack 1241; RCV --.</p><p>Notes: Strack cites examples in Florence, Rome (Conservatorenpalast and also Nationalmuseum), and the British Museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>*A.N.S. Numismatic Studies 26 (New York, 2012).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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