Silver denarius, 18 mm.
Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA PIA
Diademed bust of Faustina right.
Rev: AETERNITAS
Aeternitas standing.
Annia Galeria Faustina married Antoninus Pius before his accession and bore him four children. Only Faustina Jr. survived and later married Marcus Aurelius. Antoninus consecrated his wife when she died and founded a charity in her honor for poor girls called, “puellae faustinianae.”
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