brm_548451 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: c. après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau buste de Faustine Mère. Revers finement détaillé. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé de Faustine mère à droite avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina”, (la divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : I-V-NO.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuno”, (Junon).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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