The
Type of Juventas personified (3rd-declension, fem. gender noun) is not very common. Here are the sources:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Aedes_Juventatis.html (Go to Platner & Ashby).
The
sestertius for the young
Marcus Aurelius also is not common, but two in CA were sold in
London (attached, citing
auctions in filenames). The Baldwin one may be my die-pair.*
The
sestertius I got more than a year ago and instantly regarded with distaste, much as I wanted the
type, came from the usual venue for taking some risk; here is my note on it:
• no date I think that this
sestertius has been smoothed, the profile of M Aur sharpened (to Tyrone Power effect), and "repatinated". It was kept only for its
reverse type.
Marcus Aurelius,
Caesar,
head to r.
Rev., figure of Iuventas, standing l. before a portable
altar. D. 30mm 20.70g
BMCRE 1398, pl. 33,11.
And I attach a 900-pixel image of it.
Below I attach, at about the same file-size, two details showing the brown stuff, some unidentified green showing through, and, on the
obverse, the exaggerated-seeming sharpness of the profile. The eye and brow are very nasty.
All things considered, before accessioning it, I have placed it to soak and then to simmer in solution of sodium sesquicarbonate. It is a sturdy coin, the brown stuff is not
patina, and the green might even be BD.
N.B..: THIS IS NOT A
FAKE, NOT WHAT WE USUALLY CALL A TOOLEY, NOT VILLAGE
WORK, BUT NOT UP TO THE USUAL STANDARDS OF EXCESSIVE AND EXPENSIVE CONSERVATION, EITHER.
Let's see what it is, in a few days after treatment and drying.
CLICK TO ZOOM MY PHOTOS* P.S. No, not s.d.a. Baldwin's, which is a cabinet-toned
denarius.