“To Womanly Virtue”

284, Lot: 348. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.47 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, circa AD 170-175. Draped bust right / FORTVNAE MVLIEBRI, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC III 683 (Aurelius); RSC 107b. VF. A quality example of this scarcer type.

From the R. D. Frederick Collection.