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Diva Faustina (morte en 140/141) - Aureus - Rome (c. 150-160).
Exemplaire de la vente Hess-Divo 330 du 21 mai 2016, N° 36 et de la vente Palombo 16 du 21 octobre 2017, N° 47 et de la vente CNG 108 du 16 mai 2018, N° 634.
Anciennement gradé NGC CHOICE AU (5/5 et 4/5)
7.18g - RIC III 349ab - Calico 1744a - Beckmann AC14/df34
Superbe à FDC - CHOICE AU
" On the death of his wife Faustina, in the third year of his reign, the senate deified her, and voted her games and a temple and priestesses and statues of silver and of gold. These the Emperor accepted, and furthermore granted permission that her statue be erected in all the circuses; and when the senate voted her a golden statue, he undertook to erect it himself. ... He gave largesse to the people, and, in addition, a donation to the soldiers, and founded an order of destitute girls, called Faustinianae in honour of Faustina" (Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Pius, 6.7-8 and 8.1). The strike of this aureus follows the death in October or November AD 140 of Anna Galeria Faustina, born circa AD 100, the niece of Empress Sabina, who had married the future emperor Antoninus Pius (born in AD 86) when she was still a teenager - between AD 110 and 115. They had three children, of whom only one reached adulthood, and seem to have a happy relationship, which explains why her widower immediately asked the Senate to deify her, and quickly dedicated to her a temple in the Roman Forum (which survives almost intact today). Such aurei, as well with those with the legend PIETAS, were struck in order to be given during a public ceremony in her memory on the tenth anniversary of her deification, circa AD 151: Antoninus Pius seems to have been particularly enamoured of his wife, and saddened by her loss, as he struck a most unusual quantity of coins in her honour: approximately one for every coin issued under his own name. Reverses with Eternity are often found in the coinage of the two Faustinas, with a variety of designs.
Exemplaire de la vente Hess-Divo 330 du 21 mai 2016, N° 36 et de la vente Palombo 16 du 21 octobre 2017, N° 47 et de la vente CNG 108 du 16 mai 2018, N° 634.
Anciennement gradé NGC CHOICE AU (5/5 et 4/5)
7.18g - RIC III 349ab - Calico 1744a - Beckmann AC14/df34
Superbe à FDC - CHOICE AU
" On the death of his wife Faustina, in the third year of his reign, the senate deified her, and voted her games and a temple and priestesses and statues of silver and of gold. These the Emperor accepted, and furthermore granted permission that her statue be erected in all the circuses; and when the senate voted her a golden statue, he undertook to erect it himself. ... He gave largesse to the people, and, in addition, a donation to the soldiers, and founded an order of destitute girls, called Faustinianae in honour of Faustina" (Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Pius, 6.7-8 and 8.1). The strike of this aureus follows the death in October or November AD 140 of Anna Galeria Faustina, born circa AD 100, the niece of Empress Sabina, who had married the future emperor Antoninus Pius (born in AD 86) when she was still a teenager - between AD 110 and 115. They had three children, of whom only one reached adulthood, and seem to have a happy relationship, which explains why her widower immediately asked the Senate to deify her, and quickly dedicated to her a temple in the Roman Forum (which survives almost intact today). Such aurei, as well with those with the legend PIETAS, were struck in order to be given during a public ceremony in her memory on the tenth anniversary of her deification, circa AD 151: Antoninus Pius seems to have been particularly enamoured of his wife, and saddened by her loss, as he struck a most unusual quantity of coins in her honour: approximately one for every coin issued under his own name. Reverses with Eternity are often found in the coinage of the two Faustinas, with a variety of designs.