Faustina II. AE 20mm. Ca AD 160-176. Roman Provincial. #sherborne Photographed within its protective capsule

Photographed within its protective capsule and supplied with pouch and certificate of authenticity

Recruited from the financial community of the City of London it was the original 'Pals battalion'

mounted for wear

AE Sestertius  Rome mint

Faustina II. AE 20mm. Ca AD 160-176. Roman Provincial. #sherborne Photographed within its protective capsuleFaustina junior was the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. This provincial bronze coin from an uncertain mint, possibly Anatolia, shows a nice bust of the empress, and the reverse shows the goddess Cybele, seated left holding a patera, with her left arm resting on a Tympanum. 6. 54g. 20. 5mm. Very fine.