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ROMAN EMPIRE - ROMAN
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ROMAN EMPIRE - ROMAN
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Estimate €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
ROMAN EMPIRE - ROMAN
Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). Dupondius (?), struck on a medallion-shaped blank by M. Maecilius Tullus, mint master ND (7 BC), Rome.
Obverse: CAESAR AVGVST PONT MAX. TRIB – VNIC. POT. Laureate head facing left, crowned by a standing Victory behind the nape of the neck, holding a cornucopia.
Reverse: M. MAECILIVS. TVLLIVS. III. VIR. A. A. A. F. F. around SC.
RIC.433 – C.450 (40 F) – Giard 653; Bronze – 11.83 g – 31.5 mm – 12 h
From Elsen Auction 109, 18 June 2011, lot 306.
A fine, vigorous strike, only slightly off-centre. The patina is greenish-brown. Superb.
Sometimes described (Cohen) as “between a large bronze and a medallion”, whilst the *Roman Imperial Coinage* uses the designation “Dupondius?”. According to H. Mattingly, this was a dupondius belonging to a “triumphal” issue, commemorating Tiberius’s triumph. J.-B. Giard prefers to refer to it as a medallion. The monetary triumvir responsible for the strike was Marcus Maecilius Tullius [M MAECILIVS. TVLLIVS. III. VIR. A. A. A. F. F. / S C (“Marcus Maecilius Tullius, triumvir, auro argentum aeri flando feriundo, by decree of the Senate”) meaning Marcus Maecilius Tullius, the magistrate in charge of preparing the blanks and striking coins of gold, silver and bronze by decree of the Senate]
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