Diva Faustina: Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces (Numismatic Research)

The coinage struck posthumously within the title of Faustina the Elder, spouse of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, was the biggest such challenge ever produced by the mint of Rome. Till now it has been not possible to this point these cash with any accuracy, and thus tough to find out their place in imperial ideology. This research definitively resolves the chronological difficulties of those undated points via die research of Diva Faustina’s gold and bronze coinage. This new understanding of the coinage then kinds the premise for a research of the iconographic commemoration of Faustina in all media all through the empire. It sheds vital new mild on the altering nature of the cult of Faustina throughout (and maybe after) the lifetime of her husband Antoninus Pius, on the character and mechanisms of household commemoration within the Antonine interval basically, on the cult of the divi divaeque, and particularly on the position of imperial girls, residing and useless, within the presentation of the general public picture of the emperor each in Rome and within the provinces. The amount comprises illustrated catalogues of the sestertii and aurei within the title of Diva Faustina, together with forgeries and a statistical evaluation, co-authored with Warren Esty.