Quinarius
M. Porcius Cato, Roman Republic
47-46 BCE
Silver
Overall: 1/2 in. (12 mm)
Weight: 2.1 g
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Glenn Babbitt
174.30.30180
Geography/Culture
Europe, Italy
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Classification
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscription
Obverse: Head of Liber (Bacchus) with ivy wreath; behind and downwards, M.C[ato pro]PR [pellets below PR], counterclockwise; border of dots Reverse: Victory seated right holding patera (libation vessel) in extended right hand and palm branch in left; VICTRIX in exergue
Exhibition History
Classics Exhibition, Barrows, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1983.
Provenance
Glenn Babbitt; given to present collection, 1974.
Catalogue Raisonne
Crawford 462/2
Old Number
HN 170
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