Faustina II, Paduan medallion. 36.40 mm, 39.68 g. 1500-1570 by Giovanni da Cavino. 

FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG P I FIL, draped bust right, hair bound with fillet.
SC beneath sacrificial scene of the empress, five veiled 
women and a child to right and 1eft of an altar before the 
temple of Vesta with a statue in the cella.

Hill 407; Klawans 2; Lawrence, Cavino 59. There is no 
original Roman coin of this type. Early authors such as 
Cohen and Lawrence took the Paduan for an original.

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