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v31_0278 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier

FAUSTINA MAJOR Denier AU
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. 145
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan irrégulier, mais bien centré des deux côtés. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. A été nettoyé

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA. AVG - FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et drapé de Faustine mère à droite avec les cheveux relevés, coiffés en chignon (L9).
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina”, (La divine Faustine augusta).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PIETA-S AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée debout à gauche, tenant une boîte à encens (acerra) de la main gauche et versant de l'encens au-dessus d'un autel.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l'augusta).

Commentary


Poids léger. Portrait inhabituel.

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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