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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Constantinian Era| > |Commemoratives| > RL92030
City of Rome Commemorative, 330 - 335 A.D.
|Commemoratives|, |City| |of| |Rome| |Commemorative,| |330| |-| |335| |A.D.|, In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars. They were abandoned in the Tiber as infants. Faustulus, a shepherd, found the infants being suckled by the she-wolf (Lupa) at the foot of the Palatine Hill. Their cradle, in which they had been abandoned, was on the shore overturned under a fig tree. Faustulus and his wife, Acca Larentia, raised the children. Romulus was the first King of Rome.
RL92030. Billon reduced centenionalis, Hunter V 12 (also 6th officina), RIC VII Nicomedia 195 (R1), SRCV IV 16521, LRBC I 1120 corr. (dots omitted), Cohen VII 17, VF, well centered and struck, porous, scratches, 6th officina, Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, weight 2.700g, maximum diameter 18.0mm, die axis 180o, 330 - 335 A.D.; obverse VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma left wearing imperial mantle; reverse she-wolf standing left, crescent on wolf's shoulder, head turned back right, suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus, three vertically aligned dots between two stars above, SMNS in exergue; ex Zurqieh Co.; SOLD











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