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Caesarea Maritima AE — Faustina Junior, Genius Sacrificing

Specimen · caesarea-maritima-faustina-junior-genius-ae-001

The Coin

Obverse
Obverse: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, the hair coiled at the back in a large chignon. The four white tabs over the flan are the holder's prongs.
Image source & licence

Image: Heritage Auctions (HA.com), lot 61636-21254.

Reverse
Reverse: COL PRIMA FL AVG CAESAREA — the Flavian colonial title — with Genius (or the emperor) standing facing, cornucopia in the left arm, sacrificing from a patera over a bull's-head thymiaterion.
Image source & licence

Image: Heritage Auctions (HA.com), lot 61636-21254.

Grading Label

Grading Label
The NGC holder, front: SAMARIA, CAESAREA / Faustina Jr., AD 147-175/6 / AE24 (11.08g) / rv emperor or Genius sacrificing, graded Ch VF, strike 4/5, surface 2/5, certification 4934860-007, with barcode. Private view — the collection gates grading labels behind site auth.
Image source & licence

Image: Heritage Auctions (HA.com).

Grading Label Reverse
The NGC holder, back: the coin's reverse through the plastic, with the second barcode and cert number. Private view - gated with the label front.
Image source & licence

Image: Heritage Auctions (HA.com).

Attribution: Judaea. Caesarea Maritima. The colony of Caesarea Maritima, under Marcus Aurelius, in the name of Faustina Junior. Struck during Faustina Junior's years as Augusta, AD 147–175/176; the issue is not internally dated. AE. AE unit.

Obverse: Draped bust of Faustina Junior right, seen from the front, the hair braided and coiled at the back of the head in a large chignon.

Reverse: Genius — or the emperor; the cataloguing leaves the identification open — standing facing, head turned left, a cornucopia cradled in the left arm, pouring a libation from a patera held out in the right hand, over a thymiaterion (an incense altar) whose body is decorated with a bull's head.

Weight: 11.08 g (auction) (11.08 g is Heritage's figure for the lot (61636-21254). The coin is sealed in an NGC holder and staying there under John's slab policy (2026-08-11), so it cannot be re-weighed: this is the permanent figure, recorded as an auction weight rather than an owner measurement. The field weight_source is proposed to Code in schema_change_requests/2026-08-11-weight-source-field.md and is written here ahead of that landing.) · 24 mm · axis 0°  Reference: RPC IV.3 online, temporary no. 6321

Type-level historical context, attribution detail, and references → Caesarea Maritima AE — Faustina Junior, Genius Sacrificing

John's Ancient Coin Collection · Specimen · caesarea-maritima-faustina-junior-genius-ae-001

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