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

116 PERIOD VII. C.
galloping ; above which, a ring and pellets ; beneath, another ring
ornament. Wt. 85 grs.
The name of Tasciovamis is not mentioned in history.
On numismatic evidence he may be supposed to have
reigned from about B.C. 30 to a.d. 5.
9. British. A/". Obv. CAMV(lodunum). Ear of corn. Bev.
CVNO(belinus). Horse, prancing. Wt. 82-5 grs.
Cunobelinus, the son of Tasciovanus, reigned over the
Trinobantes, with Camulodunum (Colchester) for his
capital, from B.C. 5 to circa a.d. 43. He is the Cymbeline
of Shakespeare.
PtATE 68. 10. Rome. M. Obv. Head of Saturn, with sickle at shoulder. Bev.
Two quaestors, seated. In field, ears of corn. Moneyers, PI SO
CAEPIO Q(u3estores) AD FRV(mentum) EMV(ndum) EX
S(enatus) C(onsulto). Wt. 61-2 grs.
The head of Saturn alludes to the cerarium Saturni of
the quaestors. These coins were issued in B.C. 100, when
the senate granted to the urban quaestors extraordinary
funds for the purchase of corn.
11. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of Roma; in front, X; behind, tripod.
Bev. ROMA. Apollo, with bow and arrow, in biga. Money er,
M .
B.C. 99-94.
OnEIMI(us). Wt. 62-2 grs.
12. Italy. Social
behind, wreath.
War. M. Obv. ITALIA. Head of Italia;
Bev. C . PAPI(us) C .(filius), in Oscan characters.
The Dioscuri. Wt. 61 grs.
The name on this and the following coins (Nos. 12-15)
is that of C. Papius Mutilus, one of the principal Samnite
generals in the Marsic or Social War, B.C. 90-89.
13. Italy. Social War. M. Obv. Helmeted head. Bev. Two
soldiers, taking oath of alliance, by touching with the points
of their swords a pig held in the arms of a kneeling man. Inscription,
in Oscan characters, . PAAPI(us) . MVTIL(us)
EMBRATVR (C. Papius C. Mutilus Imperator). Wt. 62-5 grs.
14. Italy. Social War. M. Obv. VITELIV (ITALIA), in
Oscan characters. Head of Mars ; behind, X. Bev. . PAAPII .
. , in Oscan characters. Four soldiers, taking oath of alliance as
on No. 13. Wt. 61 grs.
1 5. Italy. Social War. M. Obv. Head of Bacchante. Bev. Samnite
bull, goring the Roman wolf Inscription, in Oscan characters,
C . PAAPI . MVTIL. EMBRATVR . Wt. 59-2 grs.
The majority of the coins of the confederate Italian
peoples during their war with Rome were struck at their