Minucia
  | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. MINVCIA. A plebian family whose surnames, as they appear on coins, are Augurinus, Rufus and Thermus. The gold are very rare and the silver common. Some of the latter, restored by Trajan, are of high price. The brass pieces of this family are parts of the As. Among the same types is one in silver having on its obverse a female head helmeted, and on the reverse the legend Q THERMus M F. Two soldiers armed with sword and buckler, engaged in combat with another soldier similarly armed on his knees between them. This type clearly points to the honor of having saved a Roman citizen's life in battle, but leaves in doubt to whom the glory of this distinguished exploit belongs. Morell gives his reasons in some length for believing that this denarius was struck by Quintus Minucius Thermus, the son of Marcus (as the inscription indicates). He was a monetal triumvir perhaps or quatnorvir under Julius Caesar. He had just attained the direction of affairs in that public department and had particularly fixed on this type in order at once to compliment Caesar and recall his own father's prowess to rememberance. For we have the testimony of Suctonius that Caesar made the first payments to the legions in Asia in the tent of Marcus Thermus and that Caesar was presented by the same Thermus, with a civic crown at the taking of Mitylene. |
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Minucia
| Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. MINVCIA. A plebian family whose surnames, as they appear on coins, are Augurinus, Rufus and Thermus. The gold are very rare and the silver common. Some of the latter, restored by Trajan, are of high price. The brass pieces of this family are parts of the As. Among the same types is one in silver having on its obverse a female head helmeted, and on the reverse the legend Q THERMus M F. Two soldiers armed with sword and buckler, engaged in combat with another soldier similarly armed on his knees between them. This type clearly points to the honor of having saved a Roman citizen's life in battle, but leaves in doubt to whom the glory of this distinguished exploit belongs. Morell gives his reasons in some length for believing that this denarius was struck by Quintus Minucius Thermus, the son of Marcus (as the inscription indicates). He was a monetal triumvir perhaps or quatnorvir under Julius Caesar. He had just attained the direction of affairs in that public department and had particularly fixed on this type in order at once to compliment Caesar and recall his own father's prowess to rememberance. For we have the testimony of Suctonius that Caesar made the first payments to the legions in Asia in the tent of Marcus Thermus and that Caesar was presented by the same Thermus, with a civic crown at the taking of Mitylene. |
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