- Mint State Uncirculated Roman Empire silver denarius coin.
- Posthumous consecration issue struck for Empress Faustina Senior by her devoted husband Emperor Antoninus Pius at the Rome Mint, 138-140/1 CE.
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RIC 348, 3.57g (heavy flan).
- Well struck with lustrous surfaces, superb portrait!
- Faustina was the Mother-in-Law of future Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
- Certified by NGC to MS, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5 (rare near maximum subgrades with NO problems).
- Obverse: DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right.
- Reverse: AETERNITAS, Aeternitas as Fortuna standing left raising globe in right hand and holding ship rudder.
- Fortuna was the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion.
- The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State. Its framework was based on Roman and Greek precedents, and was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus.A deceased emperor held worthy of the honor could be voted a state divinity (divus, plural divi) by the Senate and elevated as such in an act of apotheosis. The granting of apotheosis served religious, political and moral judgment on Imperial rulers and allowed living Emperors to associate themselves with a well-regarded lineage of Imperial divi from which unpopular or unworthy predecessors were excluded.
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