FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER BRONZE SESTERTIUS – MATER CASTRORUM ISSUE EX SANBORN COLLECTION – VF ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 20290)

$750.00

ROMAN EMPIRE. FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER, WIFE OF MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 147–175.
Bronze Sestertius, 25.02 g, 31 mm. Posthumous issue of Rome, ca. AD 176.
Obv. DIVAE FAVSTINAE PIAE, veiled and draped bust right. Rev. MATRI CASTRORVM, Faustina seated left holding eagle and long scepter, three military standards in the background, SC in exergue.
RIC 1711 (Marcus Aurelius).
Ex Sanborn Collection, Sotheby Park Bernet 2/24/1977, lot 317.
Near VF, some areas of corrosion, a rare emission with only eight specimens on CoinArchives, with old tag noting that it was acquired at “Baldwin ‘64.”