28984 - Rome (denarius Apollo/quadriga - RRC 354/1 84 BCE) over Rome (Apollo/quadriga - RRC 354/1 84 BCE) (Berk, BBS 174, May 2011, 130)

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SILVER IDUnique ID of the page : 28984


84 BCE - 84 BCE | C. LICINIVS L.F / MACER in exergue

Images
Overstriking coin
Rome_Harlan_J._Berk,_BBS_174,_10_May_2011,_130+.jpg [1]
Overstruck variety
Rome_RRC_354_1.jpg [2]
Location/history
Sale(s)Sale(s) : Harlan J. Berk, BBS 174, 10 May 2011, 130

Overstriking coin

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: Bust of Apollo l. showing back and shoulders, wielding thunderbolt in r. hand. ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.: C. LICINIVS L.F / MACER in exergue (Latin) Minerva in quadriga r.
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.: Rome Ancient regionAncient region. Latium Modern countryModern country: Italy AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources: Roman Republic
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 84 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 84 BCE Hellenistic 323-30 BC Nomisma.org periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver Nomisma.org WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 3.883.88 g <br />3,880 mg <br /> DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: denarius Nomisma.org
References
Coin referenceReference of the Coin: Coin series referenceReference to coin series study: Sydenham 19521Sydenham 1952, n° 732, RRC2RRC, n° 354/1
Coin series web referenceCoin series web references:

Overstruck type

Description
ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.: ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
Mint and issuing power
MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. : Ancient regionAncient region.  Modern countryModern country: AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. :
Chronology
FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. periodTime period of the numismatic object.
Physical description
References
Coin type referenceReference to coin series study :
Additional data
Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes: exceptional Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification: sure
RemarksRemarks: "an almost inverted overstrike over another die of the same type: the legend in exergue from the first strike, with slightly different shapes and positioning of the two lines of letters of the legend, is visible almost upside down at the upper right. A most unusual Republican instance of a reverse struck twice with two different but contemporaneous reverse dies, a phenomenon that is considerably commoner on Roman imperial sestertii and middle bronzes, and that suggests, as Colin Kraay deduced in conversation with C. Clay c. 1972, that those two reverse dies were being applied alternately and at rapid tempo at the same anvil die, occasionally producing such overstrikes when the completed coin was not removed promptly enough from the obverse die. Excellent evidence for an otherwise unsuspected coin production technique, and very rarely observed on Republican denarii"

References

  1. ^  Sydenham, Edward Allen (1952), The Coinage of the Roman Republic, London, Spink & Son Ltd., lxix, 343 p., 30 pl.
  2. ^  Crawford, Michael H. (1974), Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge