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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Republic| > |211-100 B.C.| > RR92161
Roman Republic, Ti. Minucius C.f. Augurinus, 134 B.C.
|211-100| |B.C.|, |Roman| |Republic,| |Ti.| |Minucius| |C.f.| |Augurinus,| |134| |B.C.|, In 135 B.C., the First Servile War began. After the Second Punic war, an over-abundance of slaves caused them to be ill-fed by their masters, and they soon began to provide for themselves by robbery. Several decades of increasing tension finally broke out into war. The rebel leader was Eunus, a slave whose master had hired him out as a magician for parties. Eunus would humorously tell his audiences that he was a prophet, that someday he would be king, the classes would be reversed, and aristocrats would killed or enslaved - except for those that tipped him for the show. During the revolt he did spare the lives of at least some aristocrats who had tipped him. The war lasted until 132 B.C. Eunus was captured, but he died before he could be punished. This was the first of three slave revolts against the Roman Republic; the last and the most famous was led by Spartacus.
RR92161. Silver denarius, Crawford 243/1, Sydenham 494, BMCRR Rome 1005, RSC I Minucia 9, Russo RBW 212, SRCV I 120, aEF, light marks, slightly off center, reverse die wear, small edge splits/cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.356g, maximum diameter 18.4mm, die axis 270o, 134 B.C.; obverse helmeted head of Rome right, X (XVI monogram, mark of value) behind; reverse statue on a drum column, flanked by two stalks of grain and two togate standing figures, the figure on the left is holding a loaf of bread, the one on right is veiled and holding lituus, RO-MA divided above, TI MINVCI upward on left, AVGRINI downward on right; ex CGB Numismatique Paris; SOLD











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