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Faustina Senior
Augusta
AD 138 - 141

Silver AR Denarius
Rome mint AD 141

Coins Catalog ID: 2021

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Sales Description
Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA - Bust draped right
Reverse: AVGVSTA - Vesta standing left, holding patera over lit altar and Palladium close to her side in other arm.
References: 
RIC, vol. III, p. 72, 370
Cohen 116

Faustina Senior - Annia Galeria Faustina. Wife of Antoninus Pius; Mother of Faustina Junior and Galerius Antoninus; Ant of Marcus Aurelius; Grandmother of Commodus, Lucilla, Annius Verus and Aurelius Antoninus.

Mints: Rome

Biography: Annia Galeria Faustina, or Faustina the Elder, became wife of Antoninus Pious when the two were in their twenties. She was the daughter of Marcus Annius Verus and the marriage was a happy one. Faustina appears to have been involved in charitable activities and sponsored education for poor Roman girls. She died in 141 and was much mourned by her husband. Antoninus had her deified and enormous number of coins with her portrait were struck to honor her memory.

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