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brm_562325 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce

FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 26,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Joli buste ainsi qu’une agréable Piété au revers. Usure régulière. Patine verte
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVSTA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé de Faustine mère à gauche, avec les cheveux relevés coiffés en chignon.
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina” (La divine augusta Faustine).

Reverse


Reverse legend : [PIET] - AS AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (La Piété) voilée debout à gauche, jetant de l'encens de la main droite dans la flamme d'un candélabre et tenant une boîte de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l'augusta).

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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