Live auction - brm_456628 - FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 150 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 October 2017 15:18:16 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 326
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique. Revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine vert foncé. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur S
Obverse
Obverse legend : FLAV MAX - FAVSTA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Fausta à droite, les cheveux retenus par un petit chignon, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta”, (Flavia Maxima Fausta augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES REIP-VBLICAE// .SMK.
Reverse description : Fausta debout à gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses bras.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : “Spes Reipublicæ”, (L'Espérance de la République).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Collier de perles autour du cou. Chevelure crantée retenue en arrière par un petit chignon pris dans dans un collier de perles.
Historical background
FAUSTA
(+326)
Daughter of Maximianus Herculius, wife of Constantine I, mother of Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II - Augusta
Fausta, daughter of Maximien Hercule, married Constantine in 307 with whom she had five children, three boys, Constantine II, Constance and Constans, and two daughters, Constantina, who married successively Hanniballien and Constance Galle, and Hélène, who married Julien II . Involved in a sordid affair of adultery with her stepson Crispus, she was scalded in her bath on the orders of Constantine in 326.
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