Live auction - brm_348470 - CLAUDIA Denier
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| Estimate : | 1 600 € |
| Price : | 2 200 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 March 2015 14:27:33 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,80 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très belle tête de haut relief du vainqueur de Syracuse. Revers historiquement important de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine avec reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de M. Robert Couet
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARCELLINVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marcus Claudius Marcellinus à droite ; derrière, un triskèle.
Obverse translation : “Marcellinus” (Marcellin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MARCELLVS/ COS. QVINQ.
Reverse description : Marcus Claudius Marcellus , vêtu de la toge marchant à droite, tenant un trophée des deux mains, s’apprêtant à gravir les marches du temple tétrastyle de Jupiter Feretrius à fronton triangulaire.
Reverse translation : “Marcellus/ Consul quintum” (Marcellus consul pour la cinquième fois).
Historical background
CLAUDIA
(50 BC)
Adopted by a Cornelius Lentulus, Marcellinus belongs to the gens Cornelia, but his cognomen recalls his filiation with the gens Claudia. Today, it seems certain that Marcellinus is the quaestor of 48 BC and not the consul of 18 BC. On the other hand, he could be the father of this consul. Cnæus Marcellinus, consul in 56 BC could be the father of our coinage. It was he who restored Ptolemy XII to the throne in 55 BC. Having violently opposed Pompey, Marcellinus father and son seem to have rallied to Caesar, allowing Publius to obtain the quaestorship for the year 48 with his cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus Æserninis, consul in 22 BC. He received from Caesar the command of the ninth legion at Dyrrachium, but was killed by being beaten by Pompey.
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