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ROMAN COINS ROMAN EMPIRE FAUSTINA senior, wife of Antoninus Pius, † 141 Sestertius, posthumous, after 141. AE 23.45 g. DIVA - FAVSTINA Draped bust r., band of pearls in the hair. Rev. S-C Vesta, wearing long dress and mantle, standing facing, veiled head turned l., holding Palladium with her l. hand, long torch in her r. hand. RIC 165, 1151. C. 268. J. P. C. Kent - B. Overbeck - B. Stylow and M. Hirmer, Die römische Münze (1973), pl. 81, 331 and colour plate XIII (this specimen). Rare and with a fabulous pedigree. Beautiful dark green patina, insignificantly smoothed on rev. Extremely fine Ex Baron von Schennis, C. S. Bement, Platt Hall and ESR collections; ex Naville & Cie., Geneva VIII (Lucerne 1924), 1001; Sotheby's, London 1950, 1504; Adolph Hess AG, Lucerne - Bank Leu & Co. AG, Zurich / The ESR collection 23 March 1961, 198 and Bank Leu AG, Zurich 48 (1989), 357 sales.
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