brm_174575 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: c. après 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,89 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Monnaie bien centrée. Droit piqué sur le portrait mais très beau revers ayant conservé de nombreux détails et servi par une jolie patine marron foncé
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”, (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une torche allumée de la main gauche et deux épis de blé de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
Ce bronze est souvent mal décrit dans les ouvrages de référence, Cérès tient bien la torche de la main gauche et les épis de la main droite, l’inverse de ce qui est décrit dans les ouvrages pré-cités.
This bronze is often poorly described in reference works, Ceres holds the torch in her left hand and the ears of corn in her right hand, the opposite of what is described in the aforementioned works.
This bronze is often poorly described in reference works, Ceres holds the torch in her left hand and the ears of corn in her right hand, the opposite of what is described in the aforementioned works.
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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