brm_882405 - CORNELIA Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 49 AC.
Mint name / Town : Grèce
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L. LENT. C. MARC COS .
Obverse description : Tête nue d’Apollon à droite.
Obverse translation : “Lucius Lentulus Claudius Marcellus Consul), “Lucius Lentulus et Claudius Marcellus, consuls”.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à droite, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un aigle de la main gauche tendue ; à ses pieds à droite, un autel ; derrière lui, étoile et lettre Q.
Commentary
Monnaie fourrée. Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation inférieure à trente coins de droit et à trente-trois coins de revers pour deux variétés différentes de ce type qui est en fait plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Cored coin. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted a lower estimate of thirty straight dies and thirty-three reverse dies for two different varieties of this type which is in fact rarer than general works would suggest.
Cored coin. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted a lower estimate of thirty straight dies and thirty-three reverse dies for two different varieties of this type which is in fact rarer than general works would suggest.
Historical background
CORNELIA
(49 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Caius Claudius Marcellus were the two consuls of 49 BC. Supporters of Pompey, they left Rome and took refuge in Sicily, then in Dyrrachium in Illyria. Lentulus travels to Asia Minor to raise troops for Pompey. He was present at the battle of Pharsalus (48 BC), followed Pompey to Egypt, was arrested and put to death on the orders of Ptolemy. Marcellus commands part of the Pompeian fleet stationed in Rhodes in 48 BC. Caius Claudius Marcellus is the brother of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul in 51 BC.
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