v18_0381 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As, (MB, Æ 26)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large. Très beau portrait. Patine marron clair. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers
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”, (la divine Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVG-V-STA// SC.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde), Vesta ou Junon, diadémée, voilée et drapée assise à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et de la main droite, une statuette de Spes (l'Espérance) debout à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta” (L’Augusta).
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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