brm_150966 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: c. après 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 19,89 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier, légèrement ovale. Beau portrait. Écrasement de frappe au revers. Patine verte légèrement piquetée
Catalogue references :
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”, (La Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une boîte à encens de la main gauche, la main droite étendue au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Ce bronze est souvent mal décrit dans les ouvrages de référence. Il y a plusieurs types pour la Piété, suivant qu’elle tient un boîte à parfums ou le palludium.
Very light weight. This bronze is often poorly described in reference works. There are several types of Piety, depending on whether she is holding a perfume box or the palludium.
Very light weight. This bronze is often poorly described in reference works. There are several types of Piety, depending on whether she is holding a perfume box or the palludium.
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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