brm_421232 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : As
Date: après
Date: c. 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,63 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier échancré à 5 heures au droit à l’usure régulière. Beau buste de Faustine l’Ancienne. Revers de style fin. Belle patine vert foncé
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”, (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETE-R-NIT-A-S/ S|C.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée debout de face, tournée à gauche, tendant la main droite et tenant un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Poids excessivement léger. Association peu courante où la femme de Jupiter (Junon) est associée et liée à l’idée d’Éternité.
Excessively light weight. Uncommon association where Jupiter's wife (Juno) is associated and linked to the idea of Eternity
Excessively light weight. Uncommon association where Jupiter's wife (Juno) is associated and linked to the idea of Eternity
Historical background
FAUSTINA MAJOR
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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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