v24_0405 - DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce (GB, Æ 31)

MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 275.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 313.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 400.00 €

Type : Sesterce (GB, Æ 31)

Date: 176

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 31 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 27,03 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait inhabituel. Faiblesse de frappe au revers. Patine marron avec de minuscules concrétions vertes au revers

Catalogue references :

C.3 (20f.) - RIC.1691 - BMC/RE.1560 - MIR.18/51 - RCV.5221 (1100$)

Obverse

Obverse legend : DIVAE. FAV-STINA PIA.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, voilé et drapé de Faustine jeune à droite (L).

Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina Pia”, (la divine Faustine pieuse).

Reverse

Reverse legend : AETERNITAS/ S|C.

Reverse description : Æternitas (l’Éternité) ou Cérès debout à droite, voilée et drapée, tenant son voile de la main droite et une torche de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).

Historical background

DIVA FAUSTINA

(+175)

Consecration of Marcus Aurelius

Young Faustina died in 175 in Halala at the foot of Mount Taurus, exhausted, aged around 45, after having given thirteen children to the Emperor. She is immediately deified. A coinage of consecration is minted to restore his memory. It is however less important than the one that his father, Antonin the Pious, had struck for his mother Faustina Mother or the Elder after 141.

DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce XF

480.00 €

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DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce VF

130.00 €

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DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce VF

80.00 €

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DIVA FAUSTINA Denier AU

260.00 €

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DIVA FAUSTINA Denier XF/VF

75.00 €

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DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce AU/XF

850.00 €

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v24_0405 - DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce (GB, Æ 31)

Obverse

Reverse

Historical background

DIVA FAUSTINA

(+175)

Consecration of Marcus Aurelius

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