brm_338632 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As
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Type : As
Date: après
Date: c. 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,72 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière mais de haut relief en particulier au revers. Beau portrait. Jolie patine vert épaisse foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L10).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina”, (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETER-NITAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée, drapée, debout de face, la tête tournée à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant une boîte de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Ce type est classé indistinctement comme un moyen bronze, dupondius ou as en fonction de son poids et de son métal. Notre exemplaire peut appartenir à l’une ou l’autre des catégories. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
This type is classified indiscriminately as a medium bronze, dupondius or ace based on its weight and metal. Our example can belong to one or other of the categories. This is the first time we are offering it for sale.
This type is classified indiscriminately as a medium bronze, dupondius or ace based on its weight and metal. Our example can belong to one or other of the categories. This is the first time we are offering it for sale.
Historical background
FAUSTINA MAJOR
(+141)
Consecration of Antoninus Pius
Faustina mother, daughter of Rupilia Faustina, Hadrian's sister-in-law, married Antoninus Pius between 110 and 115 and had at least two children: Marcus Galerius Antonius, a boy who died in infancy and young Faustina who married Marcus Aurelius. Faustina mother receives the title of augusta in 139 and is therefore associated with coinage. She died in 141, aged about forty. Antonin immediately had her deified and struck an important coinage of consecration, establishing the "Puellæ Faustinianæ" for young orphans or poor. Antoninus will raise the Temple of Faustina in the region of the Temple of Peace (Regio IV).
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