165, Lot: 257. Estimate $100. Sold for $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ As (25mm, 8.82 g). Rome mint. Struck AD . Draped bust right / Venus standing right, grabbing with both hands arms of Mars standing right, looking left, holding shield and parazonium. RIC 1680. Fine, green patina. Scarce reverse type.

RIC notes that the “fancied allusion of this reverse type to Faustina’s fondness for the gladiator Narcissus, savours of scandal and need not be taken seriously.”