Faustina jr - FECUNDITAS AS (s1912)

Faustina II; Rome, Denarius, 3,4 g. 18.5 mm BM-92, C-99, RIC-677. Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA Bust draped r., single band of pearls in hair. Rx: FECVNDITAS Fecunditas standing r. holding scepter and nude male child. This type may allude to the birth of the last of Faustina II's many children c. 163 AD; see discussion by Hugh Preston in Celator, October 1999, pp. 40-1.