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v41_0552 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Dupondius, (MB, Æ 25)

FAUSTINA MAJOR Dupondius, (MB, Æ 25) XF/VF
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 25)
Date: c. après 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert noir épaisse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVA - FAVSTINA.
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/ S|C.
Reverse description : Cérès voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une torche allumée de la main droite et deux épis de blé de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Augusta”, (L’augusta).

Commentary


Ce type semble plus rare que l’autre version avec les épis dans la main droite et la torche tenue de la main gauche.

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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