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brm_372186 - SCRIBONIA Denier

SCRIBONIA Denier AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 154 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré au revers. Superbe portrait de Rome. Joli revers. Patine grise de collection ancienne

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière X.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ROMA À L'EXERGUE DANS UN CARTOUCHE ; C. SCR AU-DESSUS DU CARTOUCHE.
Reverse description : Les Dioscures, Castor et Pollux (Les Gémeaux) à cheval, galopant à droite. Ils sont cuirassés avec le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, coiffés d'un bonnet surmonté d'une étoile, tenant chacun une javeline.
Reverse translation : “Caius Scribonius”, (Caius Scribonius).

Historical background


SCRIBONIA

(154 BC)

Caius Scribonius, whose career is not otherwise known, was possibly the son of Caius Scribonius Curio who was aedile in 196 BC, praetor in 193 and curio maximus, religious office, in 174 BC .-C. Marseilles asked for help from Rome against the Ligurians and that year began the war against the Lusitanians. It was to last until 138 BC. In 154 BC (AUC, ab Urbe Condita, 600), Quintus Opimius and Lucius Postumius Albinus were consuls.

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