A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

B.C. 190-100. 101
11. Rome. JR. (?&«. Similar ; the whole within a myrtle-wreath. Bev.^
ROMA. Warrior carrying otF a captive woman, in a quadriga;
beneath, CN . GEL(ius). Wt. 58-5 grs.
This Cnaeus Gellius may have been the historian who
wrote in the first half of the seventh century of the City.
12. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of Roma; behind, mark of value, XVI ;
in front, RVS(ticus). Bev. ROMA. Jupiter, in quadriga; beneath,
M . AVF(idius). Wt. 59-4 grs.
The mark of value XVI occurs only on a small number
of denarii struck between circa B.C. 150 and 125, and again
during the Social War. See Babelon, Monnaies de la
Bej)uhlique rom. p. xxiii.
13. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of Roma; in front, X; behind, vase.
Eev. ROMA . SEX
. PO(mpeius) FOSTVLVS. Wolf and twins.
Shepherd Faustulus and fig-tree, with birds in the branches. Wt.
60 grs.
This Sextus Pompeius was probably an ancestor of the
triumvir.
14. Rome. JR. Obv. ROMA. Head of Roma ; in front, X. Hev.
C . AVG(urinus). Column, surmounted by statue. To the
capital of the column are attached two bells ; at its base are two
lions' heads, and ears of corn. On one side stands a man holding
a loaf and patera, on the other an augur with his lituus. Wt.
60-5 grs.
This type represents the monuments erected before the
Porta Trigemina, B.C. 439, to L. Minucius, to commemorate
his successful attempt to reduce the price of com.
The above coins, Nos. 8-14, may be attributed to the
period between b.c. 150 and 125.
Plate 58. 15. RomC. JR. Obv. Head of Roma; in front, X. Rev. ROMA.
Jupiter, in quadriga. Moneyer, L . ANTES(tius) GRAG(ulus).
Wt. 59-7 grs.
16. Rome. JR. Obv. Similar. Bev. ROMA. Sol, in
Moneyer, M . ABVRI(us) GEM(inus). Wt. 60-7 grs.
quadriga.
Livy mentions a M. Aburius as tribune in B.C. 187 and
praetor in 176. This man was probably an ancestor of
M. Aburius Geminus, who struck this coin.
17. Rome. JR. O&u. Similar ; behind, X. ^ey. ROMA. Same type
as No. 14. Moneyer, TI.MINVCI.C.F.AVGVRINI. Wt.
60-6 grs.
This Minucius is doubtless a son of the moneyer of
No. 14.