Very pretty coin, unusually clear devices.
This is what Northumberland/Smyth says about the issue:
LICINIA The galeated
head of a martial female — Amazonis, sive Heroine — whose
shield bears a warrior on horseback, and she carries a spear over the right shoulder. Before the
bust is the stamp X, behind it
ROMA, and over the helmet is a moon in crescent. A coin of common occurrence, but well- impressed and in excellent condition, weighing 58.6
grains.
R — Publius
NERVA. The ponticulus of the Comitia — or narrow passage to and from the court of assembly, — wherein stands a citizen putting
his "yea" or "nay" tablet into a cista; and another person is receiving a similar one from the distributor. This coin is merely placed here because it was formerly enrolled among those of the Licinii, until
Vaillant passed it over to the
gens Silia, where the reader will find the reason upon which the transfer was made. But there are
still remaining certain sceptic collectors, who persist in retaining it under the department
Licinia, thereby recognising the dicta of numismatic elders, to whom we also thus bend a knee, more, however, in courtesy than from conviction.
