Live auction - brm_645264 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Live starting : Type : Sesterce
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Sans patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVSTA - FAV[STINA].
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine mère à droite, avec les cheveux relevés coiffés en chignon.
Obverse translation : “Diva Augusta Faustina” (La divine augusta Faustine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [MATRI D]E-VM [SALVTARI/ -|-// S C].
Reverse description : Cybèle, trônant à gauche, tenant un tambourin tympanon) placée sur ses genoux de la main droite et appuyée de son coude gauche sur son siège, accostée de deux lions, un de chaque côté.
Reverse translation : “Matri Devm Salvtari”, (À la Mère des Dieux favorable).
Commentary
Ce type était côté 30 Francs or dans la seconde édition de l’ouvrage d’Henry Cohen, Paris, 1880, vol. II, p.431, n° 229. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposns à la vente.
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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