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ID number: BIRBI-R1212 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Faustina Major; Antoninus Pius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 138-141 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.30 Weight (g): 28.12 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 1045. W. S. Lincoln, 1928. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Faustina Major, wearing hair waved and coiled on top of head, draped and facing r. Reverse: Venus, draped and facing standing r., with r. hand gathering up drapery from r. shoulder and holding apple in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FAVSTINA AVG AN-TONINI AVG PɪI P P (Faustina Augusta Antonina, Pious Augusta of the Father of the Fatherland) Reverse: VENERI AVGVSTAE S.C (Of Imperial Venus, S.C; Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC III 1081.
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