E-auction 608-583704 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 139
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 23,06 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré. Usure importante mais régulière, le type reste bien identifiable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FAVSTINA AVG AN-TONINI AVG PII P P.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : "Faustina Augusta Antonini Augusti Pii Pater Patriæ", (Faustine Augusta d’Antonin auguste pieux père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [VENERI - AVGVSTAE/ S|C].
Reverse description : Vénus, drapée debout à droite, ajustant un pan de son vêtement de la main droite et tenant une pomme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Veneri Augusti”, (Vénus de l’augusta).
Commentary
Les pièces frappées du vivant de Faustine sont en fait beaucoup plus rares que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux, particulièrement ce type.
Historical background
FAUSTINA MAJOR
(+141)
Augusta
Faustina Mother, daughter of Rupilia Faustina, Hadrian's sister-in-law, married Antonin the Pious between 110 and 115. She had at least two children: Marcus Galerius Antonius, a boy who died in infancy and Faustina Young, who would marry Marc Aurèle . Faustina Mother received the title of augusta in 139 and was 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. Antonin will raise the temple of Faustina in the region of the Temple of Peace (Regio IV). Just after Faustina's death, a sestertius representing her funeral chariot is struck on the occasion of the dedication of the temple of the Divine Faustina on the Forum.
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