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Live auction - brm_427738 - FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus

FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus AU/AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : 230 €
Maximum bid : 230 €
End of the sale : 31 July 2018 15:30:22
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 318-319
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de Fausta à l’usure superficielle. Joli revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Elsen 72, décembre 2201, n° 596 et de la collection du docteur S

Obverse


Obverse legend : FAVS-TA N F.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Fausta à droite, les cheveux retenus par un petit chignon, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Fausta Nobilissima Femina” (Fausta très noble femme).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Étoile à huit rais dans une couronne fermée.

Commentary


Poids léger. Pour ce type, il existe deux variétés. Le premier ne comporte pas de marque d’atelier. Le second pour la première officine de l’atelier de Thessalonique est beaucoup plus rare.

Historical background


FAUSTA

(+326)

Daughter of Maximianus Herculius, wife of Constantine I, mother of Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II - Augusta

Fausta, daughter of Maximien Hercule, married Constantine in 307 with whom she had five children, three boys, Constantine II, Constance and Constans, and two daughters, Constantina, who married successively Hanniballien and Constance Galle, and Hélène, who married Julien II . Involved in a sordid affair of adultery with her stepson Crispus, she was scalded in her bath on the orders of Constantine in 326.

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