Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2011
That there is something strange and unusual about the ‘consecration’ coinage of Faustina the Elder, and, to a less degree, of her daughter too, has always been apparent to the student: it was forced on my own attention while I was writing the Introduction to B. M. C. Empire, IV. If I return to the subject, it is because it seems that there is still something to be added to the results already obtained.
1 Paul L. Strack, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der röm. Kais. Münzprägung.
2 Valeni Hoard, description in the British Museum.
3 Le Trésor numismatique de Réka-Dévnia. N. A. Mouchmoff 1934.
4 C. I. L. XIV. 5326: ‘Decurionum decreto imp. Caesari T. Aelio Hadriano Antonino Pio p(atri) p(atriae) et divae Faustinae ob insignem eorum concordiam utique in ara virgines quae in colonia Ostiensi nubent item mariti earum supplicent.’
5 Cp. Epistulae ad Atticum XII. 12, Ad Fam. IV. 5. etc.
Reference to B. M. C. Empire, IV, is required at intervals throughout the paper; the passages most in question are Introduction, pp. LVIII ff.lxxxiiiff, CXXXIIff, CXLIVf., and Text, pp. 42ft., 228ff., 487ff., 649ff.