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FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716


FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716
FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716
FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716
FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716
FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716

FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716    FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716

Item: i71716 Authentic Ancient Coin of. Bronze Sestertius 32mm (27.51 grams) Rome mint, struck circa 161-180 A. Reference: RIC III 1663 (Marcus Aurelius); Cohen 169; BMCRE 932 Certification: NGC Ancients. AU Strike: 5/5 Surface: 3/5 3990794-009 FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right.

MATRI MAGNAE, Cybeles seated r. On throne, right arm at side and l. Hand holding drum on left knee; on either side of throne, lion; SC in exergue below. Cybele (Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya " Kubeleyan Mother", perhaps " Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava ; Greek: Kybele) was an originally Anatolian mother goddess.

Little is known of her oldest Anatolian cults, other than her association with mountains, hawks and lions. She may have been Phrygia's state deity; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE. In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception.

She was partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, her Minoan equivalent Rhea, and the Corn-Mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector, but her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek religion, she had a transgender or eunuch mendicant priesthood.

Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis, who was probably a Greek invention. In Greece, Cybele is associated with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals, especially lions. In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater ("Great Mother").

The Roman State adopted and developed a particular form of her cult, and claimed her conscription as a key religious component in their success against Carthage during the Punic Wars. Roman mythographers reinvented her as a Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. With Rome's eventual hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanised forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout the Roman Empire. The meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship. Annia Galeria Faustina Minor (Minor Latin for the younger), Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger (February 16 between 125 and 130-175) was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder.

She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Though Roman sources give a generally negative view of her character, she was held in high esteem by soldiers and her own husband and was given divine honours after her death. Faustina, named after her mother, was her parents' fourth and youngest child and their second daughter; she was also their only child to survive to adulthood.

She was born and raised in Rome. Her great uncle, the Emperor Hadrian, had arranged with her father for Faustina to marry Lucius Verus.

On February 25, 138, she and Verus were betrothed. Verus' father was Hadrian's first adopted son and his intended heir. However when Verus' father died, Hadrian chose Faustina's father to be his second adopted son, and eventually, he became Hadrian's successor. Faustina's father ended the engagement between his daughter and Verus and arranged for Faustina's betrothal to her maternal cousin, Marcus Aurelius; Aurelius was also adopted by her father. On May 13, 145, Faustina and Marcus Aurelius were married. When her father died on March 7, 161, her husband and Lucius Verus succeeded to her father's throne and became co-rulers.

Faustina was given the title of Augusta and became Empress. Unfortunately, not much has survived from the Roman sources regarding Faustina's life, but what is available does not give a good report. Cassius Dio and the Augustan History accuse Faustina of ordering deaths by poison and execution; she has also been accused of instigating the revolt of Avidius Cassius against her husband.

The Augustan History mentions adultery with sailors, gladiators, and men of rank. However, Faustina and Aurelius seem to have been very close and mutually devoted. Her husband trusted her and defended her vigorously against detractors. Faustina accompanied her husband on various military campaigns and enjoyed the love and reverence of Roman soldiers. Aurelius gave her the title of Mater Castrorum or Mother of the Camp.

Between 170-174, she was in the north, and in 175, she accompanied Aurelius to the east. However, these experiences took their toll on Faustina, who died in the winter of 175, after an accident, at the military camp in Halala (a city in the Taurus Mountains in Cappadocia). Aurelius grieved much for his wife and buried her in the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome. She was deified: her statue was placed in the Temple of Venus in Rome and a temple was dedicated to her in her honor. Halala's name was changed to Faustinopolis and Aurelius opened charity schools for orphan girls called Puellae Faustinianae or'Girls of Faustina'.

The Baths of Faustina in Miletus are named after her. In their thirty years of marriage, Faustina bore Marcus Aurelius thirteen children.

Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina (147-after 165). Gemellus Lucillae (died around 150), twin brother of Lucilla.

Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (148/50-182), twin sister of Gemellus, married her father's co-ruler Lucius Verus. Titus Aelius Antoninus (born after 150, died before 7 March 161). Titus Aelius Aurelius (born after 150, died before 7 March 161).

Domitia Faustina (born after 150, died before 7 March 161). Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (160-after 211). Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (161-165), twin brother of Commodus. Commodus (161-192), twin brother of Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus, later emperor. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar (162-169). Vibia Aurelia Sabina (170-died before 217). World-renowned expert numismatist, enthusiast, author and dealer in authentic ancient Greek, ancient Roman, ancient Byzantine, world coins & more.

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  1. Certification Number: 3990794-009
  2. Certification: NGC
  3. Grade: AU
  4. Ruler: Faustina II
  5. Denomination: Sestertius
  6. Year: Year_in_description


FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716    FAUSTINA II Jr MARCUS AURELIUS Wife Sestertius Ancient Roman Coin NGC i71716