brm_355592 - DIVA FAUSTINA Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier idéalement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique buste inhabituel de Faustine Jeune. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVAE FAV-STINAE PIAE.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé de Faustine jeune à droite (L).
Obverse translation : “Divae Faustina Pia” (La divine Faustine pieuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETER-NITAS.
Reverse description : Aeternitas (l’Eternité) drapée, debout à gauche, ajustant son voile sur l’épaule droite et tenant une torche enflammée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Aeternitas” (L’Eternité).
Historical background
DIVA FAUSTINA
(+175)
Consecration of Marcus Aurelius
Young Faustina died in 175 in Halala at the foot of Mount Taurus, exhausted, aged around 45, after having given thirteen children to the Emperor. She is immediately deified. A coinage of consecration is minted to restore his memory. It is however less important than the one that his father, Antonin the Pious, had struck for his mother Faustina Mother or the Elder after 141.
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