E-auction 84-42634 - bpv_312456 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Assarion
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| Estimate : | 110 € |
| Price : | 21 € |
| Maximum bid : | 23 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 November 2014 16:17:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Assarion
Date: C. 138-141
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,80 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
EXemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait malgré l’usure prononcée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste de Faustine Mère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L) avec une coiffure très élaborée.
Obverse legend : FAUSTEINA - SEBASTH.
Obverse translation : (Faustine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aphrodite (Vénus) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : SARDI-ANWN.
Reverse translation : (de Sardes).
Commentary
Avec cette légende de droit, notre type semble bien avoir été frappé du vivant de Faustine Mère.
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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