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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Republic| > |99-50 B.C.| > RR91676
Roman Republic, C. Marius C.f. Capito, 81 B.C.
|99-50| |B.C.|, |Roman| |Republic,| |C.| |Marius| |C.f.| |Capito,| |81| |B.C.|, Plowing with a yoke of oxen usually symbolized colonization. The ceremonial founding of a colony included plowing a furrow, the pomerium, a sacred boundary, around the site of the new city. For this issue, the control numbers are always the same on both sides.
RR91676. Silver denarius serratus, Crawford 378/1c, Sydenham 744b, RSC I Maria 9, SRCV I 300, BMCRR I Rome 2855 ff. var. (controls), VF, toned, light marks, weak obverse center, Rome mint, weight 3.874g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 180o, 81 B.C.; obverse CAPIT• ┴X (60, control number), draped bust of Ceres right, wreathed with grain, pileus with star above (control symbol) below chin; reverse plowman conducting yoke of two oxen left (priest plowing pomerium), ┴X (60, control number) above, C•MARI•C•F / S•C in two lines in exergue; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD




  







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