Live auction - bpv_1081075 - ANNIA FAUSTINA Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 450 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 March 2026 15:02:56 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: An 5
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,82 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé d’Annia Faustina à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse legend : ANNIA - FAUSTINA - SEBA, (Annia Faustina Sebasth)
Obverse translation : (Annia Faustina Augusta).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna debout à gauche tenant une Nike et une bouclier.
Reverse legend : LE
Reverse translation : (cinquième année du règne d’Elagabal).
Historical background
ANNIA FAUSTINA
(221 AD)
Elagabal's third wife
Annia Faustina, a descendant of the Antonine family (Marc Aurelius) married Elagabalus in 221. Julia Maesa, the emperor's grandmother, had pushed for the dissolution of her grandson's marriage with the vestal Aquilia Severa. She made him marry this daughter of the Roman aristocracy. The marriage lasted a short time. Elagabalus repudiated this third wife and remarried Aquilia Severa, his second wife who thus became his fourth companion, for a man under the age of eighteen! History does not say what happened to the repudiated augusta.
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