brm_1156255 - DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS Denier
400.00 €(Approx. 448.00$ | 332.00£)
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Type : Denier
Date: 41 AC.
Mint name / Town : Grèce
Metal : fourré silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie bien centrée. Quelques défauts au droit. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AHENOBAR.
Obverse description : Tête nue d’un homme (un ancêtre de Cnæus Domitus Ahenobarbus représenté jeune ?) à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Ahenobarbus”, (Ahenobarbus).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CN DOMITIVS IMP.
Reverse description : Proue de vaisseau à droite sur lequel figure un trophée militaire composé d’une cuirasse, d’un casque, de deux lances et d’un bouclier ovale.
Reverse translation : “Cnaeus Domitius Imperator”, (Cnæus Domitus Imperator).
Commentary
Monnaie fourrée de poids léger. Pour ce type, M Crawford a recensé une estimation inférieure à trente coins de droit et inférieure à trente coins de revers. Ce denier est en fait encore beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Light weight filled coin. For this type, Mr. Crawford recorded an estimate of less than thirty obverse dies and less than thirty reverse dies. This denarius is in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
Light weight filled coin. For this type, Mr. Crawford recorded an estimate of less than thirty obverse dies and less than thirty reverse dies. This denarius is in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS
(+ 32 BC.)
Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus is the son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 54 BC. Present at the battle of Pharsalus, he may not have participated in the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC, but followed Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia. He was condemned by the lex Pedia as the murderer of Caesar. He commanded the Republican fleet and as such defeated the Caesarian fleet commanded by Domitius Calvinus in 42 BC in the Ionian Sea before the Battle of Philippi. He was then proclaimed Imperator. He then joined Antony in 40 BC and was appointed governor of Bithynia. He took part in Marc Antoine's expedition against the Parthians. Consul in 32 BC, he had to leave Rome after the break between Marc Antoine and Octave. He joined Antony at Ephesus, but fell out with him and betrayed him shortly before the Battle of Actium in 32 BC and sided with Octavian. He died shortly afterwards. He is the paternal great-grandfather of Nero..
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