v25_0174 - SCRIBONIA Denier

MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 228.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 245.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: 62 AC.

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,00 g.

Coments on the condition:

Flan large, mais légèrement décentré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine superficielle avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

B.8 (Scribonia) - BMC/RR.3379 pl. 43/9 - CRR.928 (1) - RRC.416 /1 - RSC.8 - RCV.367 (256$) - RRM.2 p. 11-17 - MAR.88 - CMDRR.1101 (400€)

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 droite, 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. Nous avons déjà eu l’occasion de présenter huit deniers de ce type, mais aucun avec le marteau.

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..