brm_916822 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Aureus
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Type : Aureus
Date: c. après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,97 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Joli buste de Faustine, bien venu à la frappe. Fine usure régulière. Patine de collection
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Predigree :
Avec son certificat d’exportation n°247293 délivré par le Ministère français de la Culture
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 : AETER-NITAS.
Reverse description : Aeternitas (l'Éternité) sous les traits de Fortuna (la Fortune), debout à gauche, voilée et drapée, tenant une patère de la main droite et un gouvernail de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Monnaie montée anciennement.
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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