v45_0378 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier et éclaté, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait où tous les détails de la chevelure sont visibles. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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 : AETE-R-NITAS.
Reverse description : Aeternitas (l’Éternité) voilée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (l’Éternité).
Commentary
Coiffure élaborée bien visible.
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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