E-auction 640-643669 - 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 : 5 h.
Weight : 8,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, court et centré. Des faiblesses. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
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”, (La divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVG-VSTA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant deux épis de blé de la main droite et une longue torche de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (L’augusta).
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que l’autre version avec les épis dans la main droite et la torche longue tenue de la main gauche.
This type seems rarer than the other version with the ears of corn in the right hand and the long-held torch in the left hand
This type seems rarer than the other version with the ears of corn in the right hand and the long-held torch in the left hand
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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