439, Lot: 538. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 24.11 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. Draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head / Pietas standing left, holding acerrum and dropping incense onto lighted and garlanded candelabrum to left. RIC 1047 (Pius); Banti 85. VF, green patina, some roughness.