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Type : As
Date: 145
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Présence de concrétions au revers. Joli buste de Faustine. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVSTA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina”, (La divine Faustine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIE-TAS AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, levant la main au-dessus d’un autel allumé et tenant de la main gauche, une boîte à encens (acerra).
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l’augusta).
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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