Live auction - brm_544481 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 September 2019 14:38:08 |
Type : Denier
Date: c. 189-180 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Rome. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière X.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA EN RELIEF À L'EXERGUE, A OUVERT.
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.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
Commentary
Le poids de ce denier est basé sur une taille au 1/82e livre. Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de quarante coins de droit et de cinquante coins de revers.
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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