Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Context: | Uncertain |
Material: | Silver |
Denomination: | Denarius |
Issuing Authority: | Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus |
Actual Weight: | 3.965 g. |
Date: | exact 76 BC - exact 75 BC |
Dimensions: | 20 mm. |
Region: | Spain |
Period: | Republican |
Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle, a globe between a scepter, left, and a rudder, right. A laurel-wreath with a fillet is attached to the scepter.
Donor: Gift of Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld
Commentary: Republican denarius
Sources Used: BMCRR II, 358, nos. 52 ff.; pl. C.12;
no. 393/1a, pl. XLIXRRC