Details
LOT 3061
Anonymous AR Didrachm-Quadrigatus. Circa 225-212 BC.
Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus, with slightly curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt and holding sceptre, in galloping quadriga driven to right by Victory; ROMA raised on solid tablet in exergue. Crawford 29/3; Sydenham 64d; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 78-99; RSC 24. Good Very Fine. Areas of delamination.(6.24gr, 22mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Ex Freeman & Sear (company's ticket included).
From the Terner collection.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 99, 7 July 2022, lot 891 (company's ticket included).
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
Footnotes
According to Pliny the marks of silver money of this early Roman period were bigae and quadrigae, an hence their appellations of 'Bigati' and 'Quadrigati'.
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