v36_0468 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. après
Date: 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier. Superbe portrait de toute beauté, où tous les détails de la chevelure sont visibles. Revers bien venu à la frappe et de haut relief. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTIN[A].
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 : AVG-VSTA.
Reverse description : L'augusta sous les traits de Cérès voilée debout à gauche, tenant une longue torche allumée de la main droite et sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
La qualité de cet exemplaire permet d’apprécier l’ornementation de la chevelure et la richesse de la coiffure rehaussée par un enchevêtrement de perles. Au revers, Cérès est souvent associée à Faustine dans le monnayage posthume de l’impératrice.
The quality of this example allows us to appreciate the ornamentation of the hair and the richness of the hairstyle enhanced by an entanglement of pearls. On the reverse, Ceres is often associated with Faustina in the posthumous coinage of the empress
The quality of this example allows us to appreciate the ornamentation of the hair and the richness of the hairstyle enhanced by an entanglement of pearls. On the reverse, Ceres is often associated with Faustina in the posthumous coinage of the empress
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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