v08_0249 - DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce (GB, Æ 32)
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 184.62 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 184.62 €
Type : Sesterce (GB, Æ 32)
Date: 176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 24,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large. Usure régulière / Revers rare
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVAE FAVS-TINAE PIAE.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé de Faustine jeune à droite avec un petit chignon ramené derrière la tête (L).
Obverse translation : (À la divine Faustine pieuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MATRI CASTRORVM// SC.
Reverse description : Faustine Jeune assise à gauche, tenant un globe surmonté d'un phœnix de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; devant elle, trois enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : (À la mère des camps).
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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