Live auction - brm_418738 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Dupondius
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | 175 € |
| Maximum bid : | 188 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 January 2017 14:42:54 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Dupondius
Date: après
Date: c. 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 12,61 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Faustine Mère. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Jean Elsen, Bruxelles et de la collection du docteur S
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina” (Divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une torche allumée de la main gauche et deux épis de blé de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Augusta” (Augusta).
Commentary
Ce bronze est souvent mal décrit dans les ouvrages de référence : Cérès tient bien la torche de la main gauche et les épis de la main droite, l’inverse de ce qui est décrit dans les ouvrages pré-cités. Avec ce type et ce poids, nous sommes bien en présence d’un dupondius et non pas d’un as.
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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