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CANCA-B163-2-1-9-RR

Metal Type:bronze
Issuing Authority: N/A
Weight:5.1 g
Diameter:18.57 mm
Mint:Rome (Settlement)
Date: 132 BCE
Denomination: quadrans
Obverse Image Description:Head of Hercules wearing lion skin headdress, right. Three pellets in left field behind head. All surrounded by a border of dots
Obverse Inscription:none
Reverse Image Description:Prow of ship, right. Three pellets in right field .
Reverse Inscription:M FABRI, NI in two lines above prow. [ROMA] in exergue.



Bibliographic Source(s): Roman Republican Coinage ..., page: 280, no. 251/3, Pl. XXXVII, notes:

Notes:Worn
Catalogue References
Li Ms E16c 9 Head, perhaps of Jupiter
Capitolinus. [3 pellets]

Reverse. The Prow of a Ship [3 pellets]
over it
*AFARRI
NI

*MFABRI as the following
coin has it.
Bargrave
The two last are old
Quadrantes of the Assis
of an ounce weight.

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Li Ms E16d No. 9 Head perhaps of Jupiter
Capitolinus
[three circles angled upward]

Rev: The prow of a ship [three circles angled upward]
over it AFARRI
NI

pw gr
3 : 7

Bargrave

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