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

B.C. 190-100. 103
2Q. Italy. JR. Obv. Head of Roma; behind, X. Bev. ROMA.
Jupiter, in quadriga. Moneyer, CARB(o). \Vt. 61'3 grs.
The fabric of this coin is not that of the Koman mint.
It was probably struck at some other town between about
B.C. 150 and 125, by the father of C. Carbo and Cn. Carbo,
consuls respectively in b.c. 120 and 113.
27. Italy. M. Obv. ROMA. Head of Roma. Eev. Victory,
in biga. Moneyers, M . CALID(ius), . Q
CN . FOLV(ius). Wt. 62-2 grs.
METEL(lus), and
Not of Roman fabric. Probably struck between B.C.
124 and 103.
28. Italy. M. Obv. ROMA. Head of Roma. Eev. The sun, in
quadriga. In field, X. Crescent-moon and two stars.
A. MANLI(us) . Q F . SER(enus?). Wt. 62 grs.
Moneyer,
Not of Eoman fabric.
Plate 59. 29. Africa. Libya. JR. Obv. Head of young Herakles, in lion's
sliin. Hev. AlBVriN. Lion; above which, Punic letter tnem.
Wt. 117 grs.
This coin was probably struck by the Maca3, a Libyan
people, during the second century b.c.
30. Hispania. Carthago Nova (?). JR. Obv. Young male head.
Eev. Horse and palm-tree. Wt. 109 grs.
51, 32. Hispania. Carthago Nova (?). JR. (96u. Head of King,
bound with diadem, twined round laurel-wreath. Eev. Elephant.
In exergue, letter aleph. Wt. 108 grs. and 52 grs.
These coins have been recently attributed to the
Barcide rulers of Spain. If this is correct they belong
to the period between B.C. 234 and 210. They were
formerly assigned to Micipsa and Jugurtha of Numidia.
33. Carthage. EL. Obv. Head of Persephone. Bev. Horse ; above
which, Egyptian symbol, a disc flanked by two serpents. Wt.
162 grs.
This symbol would lead us to suppose that the worship
of Baal was assimilated to that of the Osiris cycle.
34. Carthage. EL. Obv. Similar. Mev. Horse. Wt. 113 grs.
35. Carthage. JR. Obv. Similar. Bev. Pegasus, and Punicinscription
n^lt^S (Byrsa ?). Wt. 563-1 grs. (decadrachm).
This coin is decidedly later in style than V. C. 40.