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Silver denarius of Diva Faustina Senior with a Pietas reverse Coin Type: Silver denarius of Diva Faustina Senior, 139-141 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 145 CE.
Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.33g
Obverse: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA
Draped bust right with pearls in hair.
Reverse: PIET-AS AVG
Pietas standing left, incense box in left hand, right hand dropping incense on garlanded, lit altar.
Provenance: Nemesis Ancients & Antiquities (Vcoins), January 2007
Ref: RCV (2002) 4598; RIC III Antoninus Pius 394a
BW Ref: 013 030 101
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