v29_0223 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As, (MB, Æ 26)
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,80 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au droit. Joli revers de haut relief. Belle patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
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 : A-VGV-STA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès voilée, debout à gauche, tenant une longue torche de la main gauche et deux épis de blé de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (Augusta).
Commentary
Cette pièce, avec un petit diamètre, est bien 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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