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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3382283, member: 75937&quot;]Lovely coin, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ! Glad you were able to intercept the mail carrier and get it! </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess ol&#039; Vespasian didn&#039;t issue enough of these denarii honoring SALVS! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]898234[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t bore you with a lot of DIVA FAVSTINA issues of the Antonine Dynasty, but I will share a few that are particularly related to their apotheoses:</p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina I:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]898235[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140-141.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --.</p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-consecratio-sestertius-jpg.684634/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Diva Faustina II (Died 175/6). </p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 26.31 g, 33 mm </p><p>Rome, struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 176 or later</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA, bare-headed and draped bust right</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S - C, Faustina, holding scepter, seated left on back of peacock flying upward to right</p><p>Refs: RIC 1702; BMCRE 1570; Cohen 69; RCV 5227; MIR 56.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s one of Claudius II, veiled in death and wishing him &quot;well-deserved rest&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/claudius-ii-divo-under-constantine-half-follis-jpg.833221/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Divus Claudius II Gothicus. Died AD 270.</p><p>Roman billon half follis, 1.31 g, 15.3 mm, 8 h.</p><p>Siscia mint. Struck under Constantine I, AD 317-318.</p><p>Obv: DIVO CLAVDIO OPTIMO IMP, laureate and veiled head right.</p><p>Rev: REQVIES OPTIMO-RVM MERITORVM, Divus Claudius seated left on curule chair, raising right hand and holding scepter in left; SIS in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC VII 43; Cohen 245; RCV 16398.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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