Faustina I's peacock before throne: mirror image of the usual denarius type

[curtislclay]

In the IVNONI REGINAE type on denarii of Faustina I during her lifetime, a peacock usually stands right before a frontal throne, and a slanting scepter on the left leans against the seat of the throne: see the first picture below.

Cicerokid has just uploaded to his Forvm gallery a mirror image of this type, which may be unpublished, and which I am therefore reposting here: the peacock stands left rather than right and the scepter leans against the right side of the throne rather than the left side.

Strack 406, pl. VI, is a comparable variant on which the peacock also stands left, but there the scepter is omitted, and one sees instead a diadem resting on the seat of the throne.

[Akropolis]

" IVNONI LVCINAE"
I read  IVNONI REGINAE.
PeteB

[curtislclay]

Thanks, I've corrected it above: Faustina was probably too old by the time she became Augusta to require the aid of the childbearing Juno!

[curtislclay]

I recently acquired a second specimen of Cicerokid's denarius, from the same rev. die but a different obv. die. Weight 3.38g, axis 6 o'cl.