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v18_0375 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier

FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier AU
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 140.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. après 148
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 850 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, mais complet et bien centré des deux côtés. Petit portrait de style fin. Très joli revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA FAV-STINA..
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 : AVGV-STA.
Reverse description : Faustine sous les traits de Vesta voilée et drapée assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (L’Augusta).

Commentary


D. Sear signale que Vesta a un sceptre court alors qu’il est transversal et long sur notre exemplaire.

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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