brm_402879 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 142
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau portrait de Faustine. Revers inhabituel. Patine de collection ancienne avec des relfets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVG - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine mère à droite avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina”, (Divine Augusta Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CON-SECRATIO.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Commentary
Poids léger. Revers inhabituel. Ce type semble plius rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
Lightweight. Unusual reverse. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we have offered it for sale.
Lightweight. Unusual reverse. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we have offered it for sale.
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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