v49_0596 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Dupondius, (MB, Æ 27)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 27)
Date: après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,19 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Faustine mère. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA FAV-STINA.
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-V-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Vesta voilée, drapée debout de face regardant à gauche tenant une long sceptre de la main gauche et le palladium de la main droite tendue.
Reverse translation : "Augusta", (Augusta).
Commentary
Poids léger. Revers inhabituel qui se rencontre plutôt avec le palladium et la torche.
Lightweight. Unusual reverse which is more common with palladium and torch
Lightweight. Unusual reverse which is more common with palladium and torch
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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