brm_883712 - FAUSTINA MAJOR Sesterce
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Price : 680.00 €
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Price : 680.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: c. 147
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 28,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan épais, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVA FAV-STINA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Faustine Mère voilée à droite, avec les cheveux relevés coiffés en chignon.
Obverse translation : “Diva Faustina” (La divine Faustine ).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C// AETERNITAS.
Reverse description : Temple hexastyle de Diva Faustina à fronton triangulaire décoré surmonté de statues en acrotères posé sur un podium.
Reverse translation : “Æternitas”, (L’Éternité).
Commentary
Représentation très intéressante d’un monument encore visible dans la ville Éternelle.
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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