E-auction 186-118344 - brm_327307 - FAUSTINA MAJOR As
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| Estimate : | 115 € |
| Price : | 40 € |
| Maximum bid : | 41 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 November 2016 14:16:30 |
| bidders : | 9 bidders |
Type : As
Date: 145
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale. Beau portrait inhabituel idéalisé de l’impératrice. Revers mou. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVSTA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé drapé de Faustine Mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina”, (La divine Faustine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIE-TAS AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, versant de l’encens de la main droite au-dessus d’un candelabre et allumé et tenant de la main gauche, une boîte à encens (acerra).
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l’augusta).
Commentary
Poids léger. Pour ce type, la variante avec un candélabre (brûle-parfum) semble plus rare que celle avec l’autel. Avec ce type de légende de droit, ce bronze devrait être daté de 145, mais en fait, les différents auteurs en place la fabrication après 147. Cependant les bustes voilés sont rares après cette date.
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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