v26_0274 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine verte et marron, granuleuse au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA.
Obverse description : Buste voilé et 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 : PIET - AS AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (La Piété) voilée debout à gauche, jetant de l'encens de la main droite dans la flamme d'un candélabre et tenant une boîte de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l'augusta).
Commentary
Pour ce type, il existe deux types de buste, voilé ou pas.
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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