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Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Semuncia
Date: c. 215-212 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rome ou Italie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 4,80 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Mercure. Joli revers de style très fin. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection G. G. (1907-2002)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Mercure à droite coiffé du pétase ailé et vêtu de la chlamyde.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA.
Reverse description : Proue de navire à droite (rostre) ; le château de la proue de galère est orné d’une massue couchée.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
Commentary
Le château de la proue de galère est orné d’une massue couchée comme sur les exemplaires de “A collection of Roman Republican struck bronze coinage”, Vecchi 3, 13 septembre 1996, n° 34.
The galley's prow castle is decorated with a couched club as on the examples in “A collection of Roman Republican struck bronze coinage”, Vecchi 3, September 13, 1996, no. 34
The galley's prow castle is decorated with a couched club as on the examples in “A collection of Roman Republican struck bronze coinage”, Vecchi 3, September 13, 1996, no. 34
Historical background
ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS
(225-211 BC)
This period is mainly marked by the start of the Second Punic War in 218 AC after the capture of Sagunto and Carthage's refusal to deliver Hannibal to the Romans. The latter crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps with nearly fifty thousand men. The Roman armies were crushed at Trebia in 218 AC, at Lake Trasimene in 217 AC and at Cannes in 216 AC In 212 AC, Hannibal took Taranto and rallied the towns of southern Italy. 211 AC marks a Roman victory at Capua..
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