v21_3633 - FAUSTA Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 111.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 111.00 €
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 111.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 111.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 326
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique (Salonique)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait sur un flan large et complet. Patine marron. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FLAV MAX - FAVSTA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Fausta à droite, les cheveux enroulés, retenus derrière la tête, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta”, (Flavie Maxima Fausta augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS REI-PVBLICAE// SMTSA.
Reverse description : Salus ou Fausta drapée, debout à gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : “Salus Reipublicæ”, (La Santé du bien public).
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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