brm_1015160 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
200.00 €(Approx. 226.00$ | 172.00£)
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Type : Denier
Date: c. 150
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé ainsi qu’un revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina”, (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AED DIV FAVSTINAE.
Reverse description : Temple hexastyle au fronton triangulaire décoré, accosté de deux victoires en acrotères et surmonté d’un quadrige ; devant les marches, barrière.
Reverse translation : “Ædis Divæ Faustinæ”, (Au monument de la divine Faustine).
Commentary
Ce denier fut frappé au moment de la fin des travaux de l’édification du petit 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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