v21_2584 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 142
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan irrégulier. Très belle représentation au revers avec un temple fin et élancé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
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 : PIETAS - AVG.
Reverse description : Temple hexastyle, posé sur trois degrés, au fronton triangulaire orné de victoires comme acrotères et surmonté d’un quadrige.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l’augusta).
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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