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ID number: BIRBI-R1213 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): 3.45 Weight (g): 29.39 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 3136. A. H. Baldwin, 1957. |

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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: FΛVSTINA AVC 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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