As a private citizen, she married Antoninus Pius between 110 and 115, and Faustina and Antoninus had a very happy marriage. Faustina bore Antoninus four children, two sons and two daughters. After Antoninus Pius' accession to the principate, the couple never left Italy.
Faustina's personal style was evidently much admired and emulated. Her distinctive hairstyle, consisting of braids pulled back in a bun behind or on top of her head, was imitated for two or three generations in the Roman world.
Reverse: AETERNITAS, Aeternitas or Ceres standing, holding torch and sceptre
Die Orientation: -
Weight: -
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Vesta standing left, holding simpulum & palladium
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 31 g
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Reverse: CONSECRATIO, peacock walking right, head left.
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 3.54 g
Reverse: Vesta standing left with palladium and torch; AVG_V_STA / S C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 9.26 g
Reverse: veiled Ceres standing left, holding torch, raising robe; AVG_VSTA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.21 g
Reverse: Vesta standing left, holding patera over lit altar and Palladium; AVGV_STA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.19 g
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Reverse: AVGVSTA, Ceres standing left, holding long torch in her right hand, and supporting drapery in left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.61 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Ceres, veiled, draped, standing front, head left, holding long torch, vertical, in right hand and raising fold of skirt in left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.39 g
Reverse: AETERNITAS, Pietas standing left, by altar, right hand raised, holding incense box in left hand; S-C in fields
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 8.44 g
Reverse: AETERNITAS, Juno, veiled, draped, standing front, head left, raising right hand and holding scepter, vertical, in left; SC in fields
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 10.5 g
Reverse: CONSECRATIO, Peacock, walking right, head turned back left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.74 g
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Reverse: CONSECRATIO, peacock walking right, head left
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 3.54 g
Beloved wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius, Annia Galeria Faustina was Augusta for just two years before she died in AD 141. Evidently distraught, Pius had her deified on an extensive series of commemorative coins, unprecedented in it’s scale and duration (at least a decade). In addition to the coinage, a temple was built in her honour in the Roman Forum. The legend on the obverse of this beautiful silver denarius reads ‘Diva Faustina’ and indicates her deification (Diva = ‘Divine’). On the reverse is a peacock; a bird associated to the Romans with the goddess Juno. Together with Jupiter and Minerva, Juno was worshipped in Rome as part of the Capitoline Triad of supreme deities. Goddess of marriage and childbirth, she was the protector and special counsellor of the state, and took a further role in safeguarding the women of Rome. That the peacock is specifically linked to Juno is affirmed in myth by Ovid in his Metamophoses, Book 1, where he relates the story of Jupiter, his lover Io, and his jilted wife Juno. Ovid tells us that after Jupiter was caught by his lover, she was turned into a pure white heifer by his enraged wife and set under the guard of Argus, the hundred-eyed watchman. Sent by Jupiter to free Io, Mercury distracted Argus by playing the pan-pipes and telling stories, eventually slaying the giant and freeing Io. To honour her faithful watchman, Ovid tells us that Juno transferred Argus’ eyes to the tail feathers of the peacock so as to preserve them forever. The peacock’s tail, circular like the vault of heaven when spread and jewelled as with stars, made the bird a natural symbol of the sky to which the dead ascend and hence of apotheosis and immortality. A fitting reverse therefore, to highlight Faustina’s place amongst the divine. Ex. Roma Numismatics E-Sale 74; Lot 914; Ex. Jesus Vico S.A. (2 March 1989); Lot 143.
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Reverse: Reverse: AETERNITAS (S-C in fields), Aeternitas, draped, standing left, holding phoenix (nimbate right) on globe in right hand and with left hand holding out fold of skirt
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 25.16 g
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Reverse: AETERNITAS (S-C in fields), Aeternitas, draped, seated, left on low seat, holding phoenix on globe on right hand and transverse scepter in left
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 26.17 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Throne, draped and ornamented, on which is a wreath; against it, on left, rests transverse scepter pointing upwards, to right
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.61 g
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Reverse: AVGVSTA, Throne, draped and ornamented, on which is a wreath; against it, on left, rests transverse scepter pointing upwards, to right
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.61 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, with patera in right hand sacrificing over lighted altar left, and holding palladium in left hand
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.96 g
Reverse: Legend: AETERNITAS Type: Providentia or Aeternitas, veil blown out in round behind head, standing left, holding globe on extended right hand with left hand on veil
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.7 g
Reverse: Legend: AVGVSTA S C Type: Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, holding palladium on extended right hand and long sceptre, sloping slightly to left, in left hand.
Die Orientation: 10 H
Weight: 10.72 g
Reverse: Reverse Legend: AVGVSTA Type: Ceres, veiled, draped, standing, left, holding two corn-ears downwards in right hand and lighted torch, vertical at her side, in left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.2 g
Reverse: Legend: AETERNITAS S C Type: Providentia, draped, standing left, holding globe on extended right hand and vertical sceptre in left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 13.27 g
Reverse: Legend: AVGVSTA Type: Venus, draped, standing front, head left, holding apple in right hand and resting left on large round shield at her side
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 2.87 g
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Reverse: AED DIV FAVSTINAE, Front view of Hexastyle temple in center of which is seated a statue of Faustina I; pediment is ornamented and roof has statues and quadriga as decoration; fencing in foreground
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.29 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA S C - Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand near altar left and holding palladium at shoulder level in left
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: IVNO S C - Juno, diademed, veiled, draped, standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and long sceptre, vertical, in left hand
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA - Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, with patera in right hand sacrificing over lighted altar left, and holding palladium in left hand
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: CONSEC-RATIO - Peacock walking right, head turned back.
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 3.14 g
Reverse: AVGVSTA, Vesta standing facing, head left, holding palladium in right hand, and scepter in left; S-C in fields
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 25.3 g
RIC dates to 141 AD, various auction houses use various dates during Pius's reign, as it isn't the Aeternitas issue supposedly struck 10 years after her death, and Pius had coins struck in her name all the way up to his death, I think all we can say is it was stuck sometime between her deification and his death.
Reverse: AETERNITAS, Aeternitas, draped, standing left, holding phoenix on extended right hand and raising fold of skirt with left
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.56 g
RIC dates to after 140 AD, but CNG dates to 146-161, supposedly the Aeternitas issues were struck years later in commemoration of her divinity.
Reverse: AETERNITAS, Throne, draped and ornamented, against which rests transverse scepter, pointing up right: in front, peacock standing right
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.08 g
Reverse: CONCORDIAE, Antoninus, togate, standing right, holding roll in left hand and clasping right hands with Faustina I, who stands left, veiled, draped, scepter in left hand
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.11 g
Reverse: CONSECRATIO S C: Vesta, veiled, draped, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over altar left and holding long lighted torch, vertical, in left
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 13.42 g
RIC says 141 AD, some auction houses say 146, or 147, some say 146-161 AD, during the reign of Pius is all that's certain.
Reverse: TR POT XIX COS IIII, Pax standing to left, holding branch and cornucopia; SC in fields
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 8.23 g
A mule that appears to be from a pair of sestertius dies, but struck on an As sized flan, Faustina obverse and Antoninus Pius reverse. The reverse seems to be RIC 945, the obverse of the type mentioned above.
Reverse: draped bust of M. Annius Galerius Antoninus right; M ΓAΛEPIOC ANTWNINOC AYTOKPATOPOC ANTWNINOY YIOC
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.7 g