Live auction - brm_452616 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | 145 € |
| Maximum bid : | 145 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 October 2017 14:48:19 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Denier
Date: c. après 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,25 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Faustine mère. Revers de haut relief finement détaillé. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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 : AV-GV-STA.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilé et drapé debout à gauche, versant de l’encens de la main droite tendue au-dessus d’un autel paré et allumé et tenant de la main gauche une boîte à encens (accera).
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (L’augusta).
Commentary
Revers inhabituel avec cette légende (AVGVSTA) pour le type Pietas.
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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