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A rare Ceres for Faustina I, with veiled portrait:

Great series! My preference goes ro the Vienna Dupondius 😍

Very interesting. I also have mysterious fourre denarii of Diva Faustina I sharing obverse dies, with an obverse legend which is supposed to only exist for aureii...I have seen a couple of double die match specimens of the first one. On the same topic, but quite different period, here is another double die matched duet of imitative antoninianii of Claudius II. I acquired the second one more than 10 yrs after the first, from a completely different source :). (I won't develop on these two, but there would be a lot to say, especially on their reverse type).

Thanks @Roman Collector, and all for interesting contributions. Here are my specimens with veiled portraits, all from the same obverse die.

Very interestng @Heliodromus, thanks for sharing!

Well done @Qcumbor , happy to see the Trajan is in well ranked in tour selection 😉

Thanks @Roman Collector, a very nice aquisition of a very rare type indeed 🙂 Here is mine - and I don't know of any other specimen.

Faustina yes, and perhaps some Sabina too 🙂

Nice topic! here is my new comer, a denarius with a veiled portrait of Faustina 🙂

I tried for one lot, with a bid I thought was unreasonably high…. Apparently it was not high enough 😞

Nice write up, thanks! my veiled specimen:

Strangely, one of the very few ´´non consecratio ´´ coins I own is also a Flavian bronze, which I could never part with until now because I love its obverse: a great portrait of Titus, with beautiful green patina...

Hello All, I acquired a few years ago an imitation of Claudius II with a reverse type that I had never seen before, and which I found quite interesting at the time: not an autel variant that one often finds on imitations of Claudius II, but something that looks like a distyle temple with a lit autel on a pedestal inside, probably inspired from Probus coinage. The reverse legend reads CONSECRNTIO (sic). The lifetime obverse legend has the style of Quintillus antoninianii, or early reign of Aurelian. The coin had been sitting quietly in my trays for years... A few days ago, a fellow collector contacted me with a ''funny'' imitation of Claudius II, with a temple on the reverse. This new coin is now with me, and now that I pulled the first coin off its tray, I can most certainly say that they share the same pair of dies. It is personally the first time that I manage to gather two imitations sharing dies, and I thought it could be interesting enough to be shared on this forum, especially with this reverse ''new'' iconography. Does anyone have come accros this type of Consecratio temple reverse for Claudius II before or in the litterature? Maybe even from the same dies too :)... G.

Two CONSERATIO issues for me: a fun fourrée hybrid imitation, and the « real » one frim Alexandria (already shown in another post)

No problem at all :). Actually this coin is an oddity to me, and I am certainly open to opinions !