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ID number: BIRBI-R1220 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Faustina Minor; Antoninus Pius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 145-161 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.20 Weight (g): 31.10 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3138. G. Fallani, 58A Via dei Babuino, Rome, 1959. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Faustina Minor, draped and facing r., hair is elaborately dressed in horizontal lines with ringlets down front; stephane around head. Reverse: Laetitia, draped and standing frontally, head l., and holding wreath in extended r. and long sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: □ΛVSTINΛE AVO PɪI ΛV∩. [IL (Faustina Augusta, Pious Daughter of the Augustus). Reverse: LΛ[TITIΛE PV-BLICΛE S C (Joy of the Public, S C; Translation Disputed)
Bibliography: RIC III 1378c.
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