Live auction - brm_409835 - SCRIBONIA Denier
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 08 November 2016 14:25:46 |
Type : Denier
Date: 62 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,94 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré au droit avec le grènetis complet. Belle tête de Bonus Eventus. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés et bleutés irisés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : BON EVENT/ LIBO.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Bonus Eventus à droite.
Obverse translation : “Bonus Eventus/ Libo”, (Bonne Fortune/ Libo).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PVTEAL// SCRIBON À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Le puit scribonien orné de deux lyres et de deux branches de laurier ; en bas à gauche, un marteau.
Reverse translation : “Puteal// Scribonianum”, (puits Scribonien).
Commentary
Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de 206 coins de droit et de 229 coins de revers pour trois variétés.
Historical background
SCRIBONIA
(62 BC)
Lucius Scribonius Libo is a follower of Pompey. His daughter marries Sextus Pompey, the second son of the great Pompey. Sent to Egypt in 56 BC to restore Ptolemy XII Auletes (the flute player) to the throne, he tries, in 49 BC, to temporize between Caesar and Pompey by trying to negotiate a truce . But Pompey fled to Greece with part of the senate. Scribonius commands part of Pompey's fleet at the time of Pharsalia's defeat. After Caesar's death, he still played a diplomatic role in the conflict between Octave and Marc Antoine in the Perugia War. Octave married Scribonia, daughter of Scribonius, thus enabling the reconciliation of Sextus Pompey and Octave in 39 BC. But Octave divorced the following year to marry Livia. After the death of his son-in-law Sextus Pompey (35 BC), he was consul with Marc Antoine in 34 BC..
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