brm_617416 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 189-180 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et bien centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets bleutés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. H
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière X.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA EN RELIEF À L'EXERGUE, A OUVERT.
Reverse description : Les Dioscures, Castor et Pollux (les Gémeaux) à cheval, galopant à droite, nus avec le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, coiffés d'un bonnet surmonté d'une étoile, tenant chacun une javeline.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
Commentary
Le poids de ce denier est basé sur une taille au 1/82e livre. Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de quarante coins de droit et de cinquante coins de revers.
The weight of this denier is based on a size of 1/82nd pound. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted an estimate of forty right dies and fifty reverse dies.
The weight of this denier is based on a size of 1/82nd pound. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted an estimate of forty right dies and fifty reverse dies.
Historical background
ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS
(194-190 BC)
The years following the end of the Second Punic War were marked by the conflict between Rome and Antiochus III the Great, king of Syria, and Philip V of Macedonia. Antiochus suffered several checks in Greece at Thermopylae and at sea at Corcyra before being crushed at Magnesia in 190 AC In Italy, after their victory over the Boii, Piacenza and Cremona were repopulated by Roman colonists and in 189 AC, the Roman colony of Bononia (Bologna) is founded.
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