v16_0210 - POBLICIA Denier serratus

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 240.00 €
Realised price : 197.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 208.00 €

Type : Denier serratus

Date: 118 AC.

Mint name / Town : Provincia (Narbonnaise), Narbonne

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : + 950 ‰

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 3,80 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de bonne conservation pour ce type de monnayage souvent fruste. Jolie patine de collection au revers avec un flan large et complet

Catalogue references :

BMC/RR.1194 pl. 30/14 - CRR.524 - RRC.282 /3 - RSC.1 (Poblicia) - RCV.158 (256$)

Obverse

Obverse legend : C. MA-L-L-E- .C. F./ X.

Obverse description : Tête de Rome à droite, casquée.

Obverse translation : “Caius Malleolus Caii Filius”, (Caius Malleolus fils de Caius).

Reverse

Reverse legend : L. LIC. CN. DOM À L'EXERGUE.

Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite, conduit par Bituit, brandissant une lance de la main droite, et tenant un bouclier, le carnyx et les rênes de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Lucius Licinius Cnæus Domitius”, (Lucius Licinius Cnéius Domitius).

Commentary

Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de 32 coins de droit et de 40 coins de revers.

Historical background

POBLICIA

(118 BC)

The gens Poblicia is a plebeian family of Rome. Quintus Fabius Maximus and Cnæus Domitius Ahenobarbus, consuls in 122 and 121 BC, won a brilliant victory over the allied troops of the Allobroges and the Arvernes, commanded by the Arverne king, Bituit in 121 BC. This victory also puts an end to the Arverne empire, brings the Allobroges into the Roman orbit as a client tribe and brings the Gallic "civitates" to emancipate themselves from Arverne tutelage. The bursting of Gaul into multiple entities should allow Rome to establish a lasting peace in the new province (Provincia) organized from 118 BC, but also to "divide to reign better". Bituit, taken prisoner, participates in the triumph of Quintus Fabius Maximus, his conqueror, in his own solid silver chariot, before being executed by strangulation, as tradition would have it..

POBLICIA Denier serratus AU

500.00 €

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