RIC III Antoninus Pius 397
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Antoninus Pius 397. Denomination: Aureus. Authority: Antoninus Pius. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Gold
- Denomination
- Aureus
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Antoninus Pius
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Faustina the Elder, draped, right, hair elaborately waved in several loops round head and drawn up and coiled on top.
- Reverse
- Two-story building; on top floor, Antoninus Pius, standing right, holding scroll; in front of him, a man seated left at a table with a second man, leaning over his shoulder; on bottom floor, five women holding children and one young girl
- Obverse legend
- DIVA AVG FAVSTINA
- Reverse legend
- PVELLAE FAVSTINIANAE
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.ant.397
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