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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: FAUSTA, wife of Constantine I, AD 307-337. AE3.
Obverse: FLAV. MAX. FAVSTA AVG., Her draped bust right.
Reverse: SPES REIPVBLICAE, Fausta standing facing, holding Constantine II and Constantius II in her arms. In exergue: SMNA.
Reference: RIC VII 97 Nicomedia mint. Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Fausta" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Fausta see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.