brm_149042 - DIVA FAUSTINA Sesterce
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 20,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement ovale et irrégulier. Beau portrait inhabituel. Faiblesse de frappe au revers sur les légendes. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA FAV-STINA PIA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Jeune à droite (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina Pia”, (La divine Faustine pieuse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETERNITAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Æternitas (l’Éternité) ou Cérès debout à droite, tournant la tête à gauche, voilée et drapée, tenant son voile de la main droite et une torche de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Poids léger. Pour ce type de sesterce, il y a deux variantes de revers, suivant que l’Éternité tourne ou pas la tête à gauche.
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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