Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 628. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (7.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. DIVA FAVSTINA •, draped bust right / AVG-VSTA, Ceres standing facing, head left, holding torch in right hand and scepter in left. RIC III 356a (Pius); Strack -; Calicó 1763a var. (break in rev. legend); BMCRE 395 (Pius) var. (same). EF.

Ex Sternberg XXXV (28 October 2000), lot 551.