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brm_617460 - GELLIA Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 180.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: 138 AC.

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 3,93 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très joli portrait. Patine grise avec des reflets bleutés

Catalogue references :

B.1 (Gellia) - BMC/RR.919 pl. 26/3, note 4, p. 129 - CRR.434 a var. (4) - RRC.232 /1 - RSC.2 - RCV.109 (296$) - MRR.892 - CMDRR.741

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. H

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière X ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ROMA À L'EXERGUE DANS UN CARTOUCHE ; CN. GEL AU-DESSUS DU CARTOUCHE.

Reverse description : Mars et Nerio dans un quadrige galopant à droite.

Reverse translation : “Cnæus Gellius// Roma”, (Cneius Gellius// Rome).

Historical background

GELLIA

(138 BC)

The gens Gellia was of Samnite origin and did not arrive in Rome until the end of the Second Punic War. Two of the moneyer's ancestors, Gellius Statius and Gellius Egnatius, had commanded troops in the Second and Third Samnite Wars. It was the poet Aulus Gellius, a descendant of the moneyer (Aul. Gel. XIII, 23) who first mentioned the abduction, then the marriage of Nerio by Mars. Cnæus or Cneius Gellius would be to be identified with the historian of the same name, author of Annales now extinct, and known only by a few fragments. A great admirer of the Hellenistic world, he was interested in antiquities. He was the friend of the Gracchi.

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