DIVA FAUSTINA I / Wife to PIUS / 100-140 AD. SILVER Denarius Coin + COA GGcoins

Description

Empress DIVA FAUSTINA I.
“Annia Galeria Faustina”
Consort Reign: (138-140-1 AD.)
Wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius
Born: 100 AD.   Died 140-1 AD.
Silver
Denarius:
Size: 18.mm,      Weight: 2.6gm.
Obverse:
DIVA FAVSTINA I,
draped bust facing head
to left with hair coiled on top..
Reverse:
AETE_R_NITA_S,
Juno standing left, raising
right hand & holding long scepter in left...
Personalized COA included
The Coin:
A very pleasing example of a
Silver Denarius
coin ,
It saw some use changing several hands
before
it found a place
to wait out the centuries.
Always Authentic, I have never knowingly sold a copy or reproduction!
As grading
is subjective please Judge the coin photos to determine this for yourself.
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HISTORY:
FAVSTINA I,
Faustina died near Rome in 140, perhaps at Antoninus Pius' estate at Lorium. Antoninus was
devastated at Faustina's death and took several steps to honor her memory. He had the Senate
deify her and dedicate the Temple of Faustina to her in the Roman Forum.
Because of this, Faustina was the first Roman empress with a permanent presence in the Forum
Romanum. The Senate authorized gold and silver statues of her, including an image to appear
in the circus, where it might be displayed in a carpentum (a kind of covered waggon)
or currus elephantorum (a cart drawn by elephants).
Her remains were interred in the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Certain cities struck coin issues in honour
of the "divine Faustina" the most notable such cities were Delphi, Alexandria, Bostra, and Nicopolis.
The coins issued in the wake
of Faustina's funeral illustrate her elaborate funeral pyre, with an eagle bearing a figure aloft,
with the legend CONSECRATIO (i.e. Faustina's ascension into heaven). Coins of Faustina were
sometimes incorporated into jewellery and worn as amulets.
The posthumous cult of Faustina was exceptionally widespread, and Faustina's image continued to be
omnipresent throughout Antoninus Pius' principate. A colossal marble head, believed to be that of Faustina
and discovered in 2008, figured as one of several monumental imperial statues at the ancient site of
Sagalassos in today's Turkey. In Olympia, Herodes Atticus dedicated a nymphaeum that displayed statues
of Faustina and other Antonines as well as his own ancestors. Faustina also appears on the Parthian
Monument at Ephesus commemorating members of the imperial family.
One larger-than-life statue, discovered in situ near the Termini railway station at Rome, appears to depict
Faustina as Concordia, with a patera and cornucopia; it would have been displayed alongside statues of
Diana Lucifera and Apollo-Sol in baths privately owned but available to the public.
Antoninus and Faustina were officially held up as such exemplars of conjugal harmony that newlyweds
were directed to pray at an altar of Antoninus and Faustina that they might live up to their example.
The Temple of Faustina is thought to have been dedicated in 144 CE. It is a grand hexastyle structure with
Corinthian columns, possibly designed originally to be a temple of Ceres. Depictions on coins appear to
show a cult image of Faustina seated on a throne and holding a tall staff in her left hand. Faustina's portrait
on coins from this period is often crowned as well as veiled, which may also recall a feature of Faustina's
cult image from the temple.
The deified Faustina was associated particularly closely with Ceres, who featured prominently on coins of
Faustina; for some years, the torch-bearing Ceres was the dominant motif in her gold coinage.
In addition to Ceres, Vesta and Juno feature prominently in Faustina's coinage.
Ten years after Faustina's death, a new commemorative coinage was introduced, featuring the legend
Aeternitas ('eternity'); such coins may have been introduced to be distributed at a public ceremony in
her memory.
After Antoninus Pius' death, his adoptive sons and successors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus erected
the Column of Antoninus Pius, which dramatically depicted Antoninus and Faustina being elevated
heavenward together on the back of a winged figure.
Faustina continued to be commemorated in certain Renaissance depictions as a “model wife”.
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