Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.09 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-164. VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 567. Estimated: $ 2 000

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Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.09 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-164. Draped bust right / Faustina the Younger standing left, holding two infants in her arms; four children standing, two on either side. RIC III 718 var. (number of children standing); Beckmann, Faustina (dies fm8/T1); MIR 18, Fa 31-2a; Calicó 2076. VF. Very rare, Calicó illustrates this type with a line drawing.

Ex Tauler & Fau 158 (23 May 2025), lot 2078.

Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger was born in about AD 129 to Antoninus Pius and his wife, Faustina the Elder. In AD 138, the emperor Hadrian arranged for her betrothal to Lucius Verus, also about eight. After Antoninus inherited the throne, he broke the engagement and instead betrothed her to his other adoptive son, Marcus Aurelius. The couple were wed in AD 145 to great rejoicing. Faustina was named Augusta in AD 147, replacing her late mother. Her coinage commences that year and continues for the next three decades, showing her passage from a fresh-faced princess to a mature matron, and providing a pageant of Roman feminine hairstyles over that span. It is believed that the reverse of this coin portrays Faustina Junior herself, as she is recorded to have had more than six children, and not the personification of fertility, Fecunditas. It is interesting to note that Fecunditas’ first appearance was on the coins of Faustina Junior. Fecunditas’ prominence on the coins continued for about a century across those issued on behalf of several subsequent empresses, ending with the coins of Salonina (wife of Gallienus).

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