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Live auction - brm_479346 - FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus

FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus AU/AU
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Estimate : 180 €
Price : 120 €
Maximum bid : 300 €
End of the sale : 10 April 2018 15:31:07
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 324
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan bien centré. Beau buste de Fausta. Revers de frappe molle. A été nettoyé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection L. P

Obverse


Obverse legend : FLAV MAX - FAVSTA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Fausta à droite, les cheveux retenus par un petit chignon, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta” (Flavie Maxima Fausta augusta).

Reverse


Reverse legend : SPES REI-PVBLICAE// S(CROISSANT)T.
Reverse description : Spes ou Fausta drapée, debout à gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : “Spes Reipublicæ” (L’Espérance du bien public).

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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