brm_661721 - FURIA Denier

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Type : Denier

Date: 63 AC.

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,68 g.

Coments on the condition:

Flan large, centré, fissuré à 3h. Joli buste. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

B.23 (Furia) - BMC/RR.3896 - CRR.902 a (3) - RRC.414 /1 - RSC.23 - RCV.365 (296$) - MRR.1331 - CMDRR.736 - RBW.1495

Predigree :

Exemplaire de la collection Aymé Cornu

Obverse

Obverse legend : III|VIR// BROCCHI.

Obverse description : Buste de Cérès à droite, drapé et couronné d'épis entre un épi de blé et un grain d'orge.

Obverse translation : “Triumviri Brocchi”, (Triumvir Brocchi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : L. FVRI/ CN. F EN DEUX LIGNE.

Reverse description : Chaise curule entre deux faisceaux.

Reverse translation : “Lucius Furius Cnæi Filius”, (Lucius Furius fils de Cneius).

Historical background

FURIA

(63 BC)

In 63 BC, Cicero dons the consulship and defends Murena "pro Murena". Caesar is elected "Pontifex Maximus", (great pontiff). Octave, Caesar's grand-nephew, was born in Thurium. It is also the suppression of the conjuration of Catiline thanks to Cicero, "in Catilinam". Catiline will die the following year. Mithridates, king of Pontus, is assassinated or commits suicide after the betrayal of his son Pharnaces. Pontus becomes a Roman province. Pompey takes Jerusalem after a three-month siege.