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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Featured Collections| > |Errett Bishop Collection| > RB92408
Paduan After-Cast, Domitian, 13 September 81 - 18 September 96 A.D.
|Errett| |Bishop| |Collection|, |Paduan| |After-Cast,| |Domitian,| |13| |September| |81| |-| |18| |September| |96| |A.D.|, Paduan is the name given to the false coins executed in the 16th Century by Giovanni del Cavino, surnamed il paduano, and by Bassiano. These counterfeiters faithfully copied ancient coins and also composed new reverse designs in ancient style demonstrating a profound knowledge of history. Panduans are held in great repute, and despite being "fake," are collected for their beautiful workmanship. One hundred and twenty-two of Cavino's dies are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. They were brought from Italy in the seventeenth century by Lecomte, who bought them from the Lazzara family of Padua. They are described and illustrated by Claude du Molinet in Le Cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève, Paris, 1692.

The suffimenta was a donative of sulphur, bitumen, frankincense and/or other flammable perfumes and combustible substances distributed by the emperor, the consuls and/or decemvirs for the composition of torches and lustration. The distribution was held a few days before the secular games to equip the people to perform their part in the ceremonies. Smoke from torches was likely used for purification prior to making sacrifices before the temples of Apollo Pallatinus and Jupiter Capitolinus.
RB92408. Orichalcum sestertius, Paduan after-cast; cf. RIC II-1 609, BMCRE II 428, BnF III 462, Hunter I 157, Cohen I 81, SRCV I 2764 (original, Rome mint, 88 A.D.), F, well centered, excellent portrait, scratches, corrosion, minor pitting, weight 24.247g, maximum diameter 35.5mm, die axis 180o, obverse IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VIII CENS PER P P, laureate bust right; reverse COS XIII LVD SAEC (consul 13 times, Ludos saeculares - Secular games), emperor seated left on platform, SVF P D (suffimenta populo daia - incense given to the people) on side of the platform, baskets at feet, togate citizen standing left, emperor handing incense to the citizen with his right hand, child at feet between them raising hands, tetrastyle temple in background, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; from the Errett Bishop Collection, WITHDRAWN; SOLD




  







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