Denarius
C. Minucius Augurinus
Roman Republic
135 BCE
Silver
Weight: 3.7 g
Diameter: 3/4 in. (19.2 mm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29246
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma right; with value mark; ROMA behind downwards; border of dots Reverse: Two togate figures, flank spiral column with Aeolic capital surmounted by togate figure with staff; the left one holds loaves and the right one a lituus, lions' foreparts, with shaft of grain behind each, flank base of column; C.A (togate figure with staff) VG
Course History
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
Crawford: 242/1
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