brm_911290 - DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce
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Price : 140.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 140.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau sesterce idéalement centré, avec un joli buste de Faustine Mère au droit presque TTB+. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Jeune à droite (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina Pia”, (La divine Faustine pieuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETER-N-ITAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Æternitas (l’Éternité) voilée et drapée assise à gauche, tenant de la main droite, un phénix placé sur un globe, le coude gauche appuyé sur son siège, tenant un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Poids léger. Légende de droit ponctuée.
Lightweight. Punctuated obverse legend
Lightweight. Punctuated obverse legend
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.
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