brm_741505 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Aureus
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Price : 5 200.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 139-141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, idéalement centré. Très beau revers, bien détaillé. Légères traces de monture ancienne sur la tranche. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque NGC Ch VF (Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5)
Avec son certificat d’exportation n°225152 délivré par le Ministère français de la Culture
Obverse
Obverse legend : FAVSTINA - AVGVSTA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : “Faustina Augusta”, (Faustine Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA. AVG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde), voilée, debout tenant un sceptre long et une corne d’abondance.
Reverse translation : “Concordiæ Augusti”, (La Concorde de l’auguste).
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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