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brm_941459 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier

FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier AU/AU
175.00 €(Approx. 183.75$ | 145.25£)
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Type : Denier
Date: 148 (après)
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré, mais un peu court sur les légendes. Beau portrait de Faustine mère avec coiffure de perles très élaborée. Très joli revers de haut relief. Belle patine gris foncé de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : (L) avec un petit chignon ornementé..

Reverse


Reverse legend : AVGV-S-T-A.
Reverse description : Junon assise à droite, les jambes croisées sur un trône, voilée et drapée, le bras droit appuyé sur le bras du siège et tenant un long siège tranvresal de la main gauche..

Commentary


Représentation inhabituelle au revers. Césure de légende de revers inhabituelle.

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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