brm_291835 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait charmant de Faustine. Revers de style fin à l’usure régulière. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé de Faustine mère à droite avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina”, (la divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : I-V-NO.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuno”, (Junon).
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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