brm_298888 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Price : 280.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 24,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large et épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Frappe molle des deux côtés avec une usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron
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Cet exemplaire provient de al vente de Bordeaux de novembre 1986
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVSTA - 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-SE-CRATIO/ -|-// S|C.
Reverse description : Aigle volant à droite, les ailes déployées, enlevant Faustine au ciel avec son voile flottant au-dessus de sa tête.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Commentary
Sesterce frappé sur un flan de médaillon. Buste voilé et drapé de consécration. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare. Il est frappé juste après la mort de l’Augusta, au moment de sa déification. Sur cet exemplaire, les lettres S C ne sont pas visibles.
Sestertius struck on a medallion flan. Veiled bust and consecration drape. This type seems much rarer. It was struck just after the death of the Augusta, at the time of her deification. On this example, the letters SC are not visible.
Sestertius struck on a medallion flan. Veiled bust and consecration drape. This type seems much rarer. It was struck just after the death of the Augusta, at the time of her deification. On this example, the letters SC are not visible.
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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