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v09_0621 - FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus

FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus AU
AU
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 326
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan large et complet. Jolie patine vert émeraude / Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au revers
Catalogue references :
C.15 (3f.) - RIC.161 (R3) - LRBC.827  - RC.3905 var. (45£)

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 Fauste augusta).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SPES REI-PVBLICAE// SMTSB.
Reverse description : Spes (l'Espérance) ou Fausta debout à gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : (L'Espérance de la République).

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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