MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: c. après
Date: 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 11,68 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, éclaté à 4 heures au droit. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Patine marron foncé
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 : AVGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès debout à gauche, tenant une torche dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type semble bien un dupondius, car il est trop lourd pour être un as. Seul le métal (bronze ou cuivre) permettait dans l’Antiquité de distinguer les deux métaux en fonction de leur couleur, jaune pour le premier, rouge pour le second. Mais au cours du IIe siècle, le prix du bronze augmentant, souvent, il devient difficile de distinguer les deux types.
Lightweight. This type seems like a dupondius, because it is too heavy to be an ace. In ancient times, only metal (bronze or copper) allowed the two metals to be distinguished based on their color, yellow for the first, red for the second. But during the 2nd century, as the price of bronze increased, it often became difficult to distinguish the two types.
Lightweight. This type seems like a dupondius, because it is too heavy to be an ace. In ancient times, only metal (bronze or copper) allowed the two metals to be distinguished based on their color, yellow for the first, red for the second. But during the 2nd century, as the price of bronze increased, it often became difficult to distinguish the two types.
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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