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The head of Pallus or of Rome, winged. Behind it an X.
Rev - C MINVCI C F AVGVRINI. A fluted or chamfered column on which a staue is placed. On the left of the column stands a man in the augural habit and holding the lituus. To the left stands another togated figure holding in each hand something uncertain and planting his left foot on something equally doubtful. From the base of the column on each side springs a corn ear. Above, ROMA.
These denarii revive the memory of Lucius Minucius who is also by Pliny called Augurinus. He was Praefectus Annonae when Spurius Maelius was attemting to corrupt the populace with largesses of corn. Augurinus detected his pernicious designs, reported him to the Senate and then at a low price distributed the corn to the common people. On this account (according to Pliny) a statue was erected to him outside the Porta Trigemina in Rome at the public expense. The statue in question is here represented mounted on a column as Vaillant says striata or fluted. Perhaps says Havercamp with more ingenuity than judgement, consisting of modii (or bushel measures) placed one on top of another. In connection with the subject which the medal was struck to commemorate there are corn ears rising up from the base of this pillar. (Doct. num. vet. vol V, p. 255).