... the inscription FECVND AVGVSTAE S C. Faustina the Younger was the only daughter of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder. In 145, at the age of fifteen, she married the designated heir Marcus Aurelius and by 160, when this coin was minted, they had had many children, although some died in infancy. This fertility was a cause for celebration in the empire because both the ... ...

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