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v21_2586 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier

FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier MS
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
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Type : Denier
Date: 145
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 18e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage avec un petit buste. Revers de haut relief et de joli style. Flan large et irrégulier

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA AVG - 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 : PIETA-S AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, versant de l’encens de la main droite au-dessus d’un candélabre et tenant de la main gauche, une boîte à encens (acerra).
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l’augusta).

Commentary


Pour ce type, la variante avec un candélabre (brûle-parfum) semble plus rare que celle avec l’autel.

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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