The younger Faustina was perhaps the most noble woman in all Roman history. Daughter of the emperor Antoninus Pius, she married his successor Marcus Aurelius, and became the mother of...
The younger Faustina was perhaps the most noble woman in all Roman history. Daughter of the emperor Antoninus Pius, she married his successor Marcus Aurelius, and became the mother of the emperor Commodus. This superb coin portrait shows her not only to be noble but beautiful as well.