DIVA FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER SESTERTIUS – 19th CENTURY SPECIMEN EX BOYD AND EX REV. THOMAS CALVERT – GOOD VF ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN (Inv. 21239)

$1,500.00

21239. ROMAN EMPIRE. DIVA FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER, WIFE OF MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 147–175.
Bronze Sestertius, 19.67 g, 32 mm. Posthumous issue of Rome, ca. AD 176.
Obv. DIVAE FAVSTINA PIA, draped bust of Faustina right. Rev. CON[SECRA]TIO, Diva Faustina, veiled and holding scepter, riding on a peacock flying upward to the right, S–C in fields.
RIC III 1702 (Marcus Aurelius).
Ex William C. Boyd (1840–1906) Collection, Baldwin’s 42, 9/26/2005, lot 428 = ex Rev. Thomas Calvert Collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3/26/1897, lot 49 (part of mixed lot including three Faustina coins, unillustrated in the Sotheby catalogue but Boyd’s handwritten tag clearly indicates where he had purchased it).
Good VF, glossy green patina, some roughness around reverse field, a coin that was likely acquired during a Grand Tour in the mid to late nineteenth century.