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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Gods, Olympians| ▸ |Hephaestus or Vulcan||View Options:   | | | Blacksmith to the Gods; god of fire and the forge. Son of Zeus and Hera or, according to some traditions, of Hera alone. |
"This remarkable type celebrates the Roman mint itself which was located adjacent to the temple of Juno Moneta on the Arx summit of the Capitoline Hill. -- Roman Coins and Their Values, Millennium Edition, Volume One by David R SearSH09049. Silver denarius, SRCV I 447, RSC I Carisia 1, Crawford 464/2, Sydenham 982a, gVF, weight 3.56 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 90o, Rome mint, obverse MONETA, head of Juno Moneta right, hair in knot, earring and necklace, one lock of hair falls down on her neck; reverse T•CARISIVS above minting implements, die as wreathed cap of Vulcan above anvil, between tongue and hammer; all in wreath; SOLD
Roman Republic, Dictatorship of Julius Caesar, T. Carisius, c. 46 B.C.
"This remarkable type celebrates the Roman mint itself which was located adjacent to the temple of Juno Moneta on the Arx summit of the Capitoline Hill. -- Roman Coins and Their Values, Millennium Edition, Volume One by David R SearRR16788. Silver denarius, SRCV I 447, RSC I Carisia 1, Crawford 464/2, Sydenham 982a, aVF, weight 3.455 g, maximum diameter 20.5 mm, die axis 90o, Rome mint, c. 46 B.C.; obverse MONETA, head of Juno Moneta right, hair in knot, earring and necklace, one lock of hair falls down on her neck; reverse T•CARISIVS above minting implements, die as wreathed cap of Vulcan above anvil, between tongue and hammer; all in wreath; SOLD
Roman Republic, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, 105 B.C.
Vulcan is the divinity of the forge and therefore symbolic of the striking of money.RR95403. Silver denarius serratus, Crawford 314/1c, Sydenham 577a, RSC I Aurelia 21b, SRCV I 191, F, well centered, a bit flatly struck, scratches and marks, light tone, weight 3.746 g, maximum diameter 19.4 mm, die axis 135o, Rome mint, 105 B.C.; obverse draped bust of Vulcan right, wearing a laureate pileus,
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