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ROMAN REPUBLIC
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614
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ROMAN REPUBLIC
See original version (French)
Estimate €600
Voluntary lot
Description
ROMAN REPUBLIC
Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. Denarius ND (early 41 BC), itinerant mint.
Obverse: AHENOBAR. Bearded bust facing right.
Reverse: CN. DOMITIVS – IMP. Military trophy on a ship’s prow facing right.
RRC.519/2; Silver – 3.87 g – 18.5 mm – 9 h
From the Rev. E. A. Sydenham collection, Glendining’s, 24 November 1948, no. 400, subsequently in the collection of Edward J. W. Hildyard, FSA (d. 21 January 1964), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1937, a member of the Royal Numismatic Society, a member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. An archaeologist and antiquarian, he was the last Hildyard to live at Horsely Hall in Eastgate, Co. Durham. His collection of Roman gold coins was sold by Glendining & Co on 9 December 1986. This specimen comes from Baldwin’s Sale 55, 7 May 2008, lot 2009.
Shows regular wear, with a grey collector’s patina. Well centred. TTB / Superb.
From a travelling mint in the Adriatic or Ionian Sea. The obverse depicts Ahenobarbus himself, whilst the reverse alludes to his naval victory over Cn. Domitius Calvinus in 42 BC. The coin was struck between the Battle of Philippi (Sept.–Oct. 42) and Ahenobarbus’s defection to Mark Antony in 41 BC. Ahenobarbus was appointed governor of Bithynia and Pontus by Antony and, in 36 BC, he helped to eliminate Sextus Pompey, who had fled to the East following his defeat at the hands of Octavian. Ahenobarbus maintained his ties with Antony until the Battle of Actium, where he defected to Octavian at the last moment. He died of illness in late 31 or early 30 BC. Ahenobarbus was an ancestor of Nero, his great-grandson.
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