177, Lot: 191. Estimate $300. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ As (24mm, 10.32 g). Rome mint. Draped bust right / Venus standing right, grabbing with both hands arms of Mars standing right, looking left, holding shield and parazonium. RIC 1680. VF, brown patina, a little rough.

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.”