brm_361205 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 86 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête d’Apollon. Joli revers de style fin. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne gris foncé avec reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Apollon Véjovis à droite surmontant un foudre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Jupiter dans un quadrige galopant à droite, brandissant un foudre de la main droite et tenant les rênes de la main gauche.
Historical background
ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS
(86 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Caius Marius are consuls in 86 BC Marius is consul for the seventh time when he dies in January, replaced by Lucius Valerius Flaccus. Cinna will also be consul without interruption from 87 to 84 before being assassinated. Sylla takes Athens and, after the battles of Chaeronea and Orchomene, signs the peace of Dardanus with Mithridates VI of Pontus (120-63 BC). Nicomedes IV of Bithynia (94-74 BC) and Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia (95-63 BC) are restored. Catullus and Sallust were both born in 86 BC.
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