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v24_0169 - PORCIA Denier serratus

PORCIA Denier serratus XF
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 171.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 175.00 €
Type : Denier serratus
Date: 118 AC.
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Narbonne
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure régulière avec une jolie patine de collection. Frappe un peu molle au revers

Obverse


Obverse legend : L. PORCI - LICI.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière la tête, marque de valeur, (XVI).
Obverse translation : “Lucius Pomponius Cnæi Filius”, (Lucius Pomponius, fils de Cneius).

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


Ce denier, qui appartient à une série monétaire qui en comporte cinq, est très important pour l’histoire de la Provincia (Provence) et de la Gaule. Le revers a servi de prototype pour le bronze TVRONOS/TRICCOS (LT. 6995 et 6993).

Historical background


PORCIA

(118 BC)

Quintus Fabius Maximus and Cnæus Domitius Ahenobarbus, respectively 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, which moreover put an end to the Arverne empire, brought the Allobroges into the Roman orbit as a client tribe and brought the Gallic "civitates" to emancipate themselves from Arverne tutelage. The bursting of Gaul in multiple entities was to allow Rome to establish a lasting peace in the new province (Provincia) organized from 118 before J. - C. and "to divide for better reigning". Bituit, taken prisoner, participated in the triumph of Quintus Fabius Maximus, his conqueror, in his own solid silver chariot, before being executed by strangulation as tradition dictated..

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