brm_859242 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FAVSTINA - AVGVSTA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L).
Obverse translation : "Faustina Augusta", (Faustine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVNONI - REGINAE.
Reverse description : Paon debout de face faisant la roue devant un trône, un sceptre posé transversalement à droite.
Reverse translation : "Iunoni Reginæ", (À Junon reine).
Commentary
Les pièces frappées du vivant de Faustine sont en fait beaucoup plus rares que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
FAUSTINA MAJOR
(+141)
Augusta
Faustina Mother, daughter of Rupilia Faustina, Hadrian's sister-in-law, married Antonin the Pious between 110 and 115. She had at least two children: Marcus Galerius Antonius, a boy who died in infancy and Faustina Young, who would marry Marc Aurèle . Faustina Mother received the title of augusta in 139 and was 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. Antonin will raise the temple of Faustina in the region of the Temple of Peace (Regio IV). Just after Faustina's death, a sestertius representing her funeral chariot is struck on the occasion of the dedication of the temple of the Divine Faustina on the Forum.
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