brm_354260 - GELLIA Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 138 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Rome à l’usure régulière. Patine grise superficielle
Catalogue references :
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).
Commentary
Pour ce type, M. Crawford avait relevé une estimation de 66 coins de droit et de 82 coins de revers. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
For this type, Mr. Crawford had noted an estimate of 66 obverse dies and 82 reverse dies. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
For this type, Mr. Crawford had noted an estimate of 66 obverse dies and 82 reverse dies. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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