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Object Type
Museum number: 1844,0425.467.A
Denomination: aureus
Description: Gold coin. (whole); Male head right; before, inscription. Border of dots. (obverse); Tetrastyle temple; above, inscription; around, inscription. Border of dots. (reverse)
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Cultures/periods
Production date: 41BC
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 9 o'clock; Weight: 8.17 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Mint uncertain, moving with Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. The obverse probably depicts an unidentified ancestor of the moneyer and the reverse a temple to Neptune built or reconstructed by the moneyer.
Bibliographic references: PCR / Principal coins of the Romans: Volume I: The Republic c. 290 - 31 BC; Volume II: The Principate 31 BC - AD 296; Volume III: The Dominate AD 294 - 498. (291); RRC / Roman Republican Coinage (519/1); RR2 / Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. 2. Coinages of Rome (continued), Roman Campania, Italy, the social war, and the provinces. (93, p.487); Ghey, Leins & Crawford 2010 / A catalogue of the Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum, with descriptions and chronology based on M.H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (1974) (519.1.1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: temple; classical deity
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire; Purchased through: Christie's; Purchased through: Harry Osborn Cureton
Acquisition date: 1844
Acquisition notes: On ticket Devon.1.R 2. In the register this coin was entered as 1844,0425.467. The entry was later crossed out and given to another coin but the new number of this coin was not recorded so it has been assigned the registration number 1844, 0425.467A.
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1844,0425.467.A
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: DEV.I.160 (lot number); Miscellaneous number: E.VII.B.20; Miscellaneous number: R.9323 (formerly allocated)
C&M catalogue number: RR2 (487) (93)

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