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ID number: BIRBI-R1267 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Faustina Minor; Marcus Aurelius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 161-176 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 24.20 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3921. A. H. Baldwin, 1962. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Faustina Minor, wearing pearl circlet, with hair waved and fastened in a bun on back of head, curls on r., draped, facing r. Reverse: Juno, draped and standing facing l., holding patera in extended r. hand and sceptre in l.; at l., peacock.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FΛVSTINΛ ΛVCVCTΛ (Faustina Augusta). Reverse: IVNONI REGINΛE S C (Queen of the Goddesses, S C; Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC III 1651.
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