brm_589025 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: c. après
Date: 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 25,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure importante mais qui reste bien identifiable. Agréable patine verte
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection C. N
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina”, (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Vesta laurée, voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une torche allumée de la main droite et le palladium de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
Ce bronze est souvent mal décrit dans les ouvrages de référence. Il s’agit bien de Vesta et non de Cérès. Vesta est la gardienne du feu sacré et du palladium (Le palladium que tient Vesta est une statue cultuelle de Pallas, protectrice de Troie qu'Énée aurait emporté avec lui lors de sa fuite).
This bronze is often poorly described in reference works. It is indeed Vesta and not Ceres. Vesta is the guardian of the sacred fire and the palladium (The palladium that Vesta holds is a cult statue of Pallas, protector of Troy that Aeneas would have taken with him during his flight)
This bronze is often poorly described in reference works. It is indeed Vesta and not Ceres. Vesta is the guardian of the sacred fire and the palladium (The palladium that Vesta holds is a cult statue of Pallas, protector of Troy that Aeneas would have taken with him during his flight)
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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