brm_840971 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As
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Type : As
Date: 142
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais la monnaie reste parfaitement identifiable et lisible. Buste agréable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVS-TAE FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine mère à droite (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Augustæ Faustina”, (La divine augusta Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C.
Reverse description : Croissant de lune et sept étoiles.
Commentary
Ce type est décrit dans les ouvrages de référence comme un moyen bronze, dupondius ou as (RIC. 1199 ou RCV. 4658). Le buste peut être normal ou voilé. Seul P. V. Hill ne retient que l’as pour cette émission (H.1/ 423) lié à la déification de Faustine mère décédée l’année précédente et au début de la construction du temple de Faustine.
Historical background
FAUSTINA MAJOR
(+141)
Consecration of Antoninus Pius
Faustina mother, daughter of Rupilia Faustina, Hadrian's sister-in-law, married Antoninus Pius between 110 and 115 and had at least two children: Marcus Galerius Antonius, a boy who died in infancy and young Faustina who married Marcus Aurelius. Faustina mother receives the title of augusta in 139 and is therefore associated with coinage. She died in 141, aged about forty. Antonin immediately had her deified and struck an important coinage of consecration, establishing the "Puellæ Faustinianæ" for young orphans or poor. Antoninus will raise the Temple of Faustina in the region of the Temple of Peace (Regio IV).
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