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Offline casata137ec

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faustina sr. final id help, please and thanks
« on: December 02, 2007, 01:53:53 pm »
Afternoon all,

I am now in the process of attribing a bucketload of coins I have been putting off and go figure, the first one I started with is giving me a bit of trouble.

This one is (as far as I have gotten anyway):

Faustina Sr Denarius
O: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, Sr. facing r., draped, pearl headgear
R: PIETAS ???, Pietas standing left, dropping incense on altar.
18mm 3.04g RIC 394ish

The prob I am having is that the rev has PIETAS intact on the left and I cannot make out the right, although it looks like a whole lot of room to simply put AVG and for that matter all of the pics on WW show the PIETAS to be broken in various areas with the only PIETAS that I can see that is intact is struck in gold...anyway, any help would be appreciated (and if you know the whole rev legend that would be helpful too!)

Thanks
Chris
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Re: faustina sr. final id help, please and thanks
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2007, 02:09:57 pm »
Should just be 'AVG'

As in my example:

Best,

Andy




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Re: faustina sr. final id help, please and thanks
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2007, 09:11:37 pm »
Yup, it sure looks like you are right on the legend...and the die's are similar...but the alters are different, matter of fact, of all the examples of RIC 394a on WW it does not look like the alters are the same on any of them...what's up with that!
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s4598.html#RIC_0394a

Chris
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