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RIC 1076 of Faustina I

Faustina Sr Æ Sestertius. Lifetime issue. FAUSTINA ANTONINI AVG PII P P, bust right / CONCORDIA AVG S-C, Concordia standing left with patera & double cornuacopiae, leaning on column. Cohen 154.

Lot No.1210. nVF, could use additional cleaning.

$ 125.

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Faustina Senior died in 141 AD, after her husband had reigned for only three years, so most of her coinage is posthumous, issued over the next 20 years of Antoninus' rule.

Although later Roman historians criticised Faustina Senior for an allegedly frivolous nature, in contrast with the grave dignity of her husband Antoninus, Antoninus seems to have greatly loved and sincerely mourned his wife, whom he deified after her death in 141 AD, and honored her with the most extensive coinage for a Roman Empress.