Live auction - brm_1016716 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Denier
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Live starting : Type : Denier
Date: c. 207 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait fantastique, de toute beauté. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière X.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA EN RELIEF À L'EXERGUE DANS UN CARTOUCHE EN RELIEF.
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 ; au-dessus des Dioscures, entre les deux étoiles, un croissant de lune.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
Commentary
Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de 60 coins de droit et de 75 coins de revers. Ce denier est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent apparaître les différents ouvrages généraux.
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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