ROMAN EMPIRE SILVER DENARIUS FAUSTINA I 138 AD

Reverse

Ceres standing right holding torch and raising robe.

Lettering: AVGVSTA

 

Obverse

DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, hair arranged in a chignon behind the head

Lettering: DIVA FAVSTINA

 

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Faustina I the elder was born circa 100 AD and died in 140 AD. She was the wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, one of the Five Good Emperors. This sestertius was part of a third issue of coinage in her honour after her death and is likely to have been minted at some time between the end of the second issue (141 AD) and the end of Antonius Pius's reign as Roman Emperor, most likely toward the end of that reign. A more precise dating is not currently known. The coinage bears the legend DIVA FAVSTINA, not DIVA AVGVSTA, as the title of Augusta had passed onto her daugher, Faustina II the Younger.

 

Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture. She features prominently on coins of Faustina.

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