Aedilis Plebis
 | Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. AEDILIS PLEBIS - The plebeian edileship was the most ancient of the offices above named. It embraced many functions, amongst which were the maintenance of the baths, aqueducts, common sewers, streets, and highways: also the preservation of the public records and archives, deposited in the temple (aedes) of Ceres. The plebeian ediles were, moreover, charged with the superintendence of commerce, and of what is now called the police; together with the management of provisions. Havercamp (in Morell, Thesaur. Fam. Rom.) gives two denarii referring to the office of Plebeian Ediles. One of these is of the Fannia, the other of the Critonia gens. Both these exhibit on their respective obverses, the head of Ceres spicifera, with the abbreviated words AED. PL. Aedilium Plebis; on each of their reverses are two togated men, sitting upon common sedilia. Behind them is P. A. or Publico Argento (meaning coined with the public silver); below we read M. FAN. L. CRIT. Marcius Fannius and Lucius Critonius; the two ediles employed on the occasion to which the coin refers. - Eckhel, v. p. 198. |
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Aedilis Plebis
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. AEDILIS PLEBIS - The plebeian edileship was the most ancient of the offices above named. It embraced many functions, amongst which were the maintenance of the baths, aqueducts, common sewers, streets, and highways: also the preservation of the public records and archives, deposited in the temple (aedes) of Ceres. The plebeian ediles were, moreover, charged with the superintendence of commerce, and of what is now called the police; together with the management of provisions. Havercamp (in Morell, Thesaur. Fam. Rom.) gives two denarii referring to the office of Plebeian Ediles. One of these is of the Fannia, the other of the Critonia gens. Both these exhibit on their respective obverses, the head of Ceres spicifera, with the abbreviated words AED. PL. Aedilium Plebis; on each of their reverses are two togated men, sitting upon common sedilia. Behind them is P. A. or Publico Argento (meaning coined with the public silver); below we read M. FAN. L. CRIT. Marcius Fannius and Lucius Critonius; the two ediles employed on the occasion to which the coin refers. - Eckhel, v. p. 198. |
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