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brm_621163 - POBLICIA Denier serratus

POBLICIA Denier serratus AU
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier serratus
Date: 118 AC.
Mint name / Town : Narbonne
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,82 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Rome. Revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne

Obverse


Obverse legend : C. MA-L-L-E- .C. F..
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière la tête, marque de valeur, X.
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 Cneius Domitius).

Commentary


Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de trente-deux coins de droit et de quarante coins de revers. Dans les trésors, seuls dix-neuf exemplaires ont été relevés, provenant des dépôts de Fiesole (2 ex.), de Syracuse (3 ex.), de Berchidda (1 ex.), de Monte Condruzzo (5 ex.), de San Giuliano (2 ex.), d’Avvetrana (1 ex.), de Seica Mica (1 ex.), de Vigatto (2 ex.) et de Maillé (2 ex.).

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..

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