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

B.C. 100-1. 117
capital Corfinium, the name of which they' changed to
Italia.
16. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of Apollo. JRev. Muse Calliope, playing
on lyre, which rests upon a column. Moneyer, Q . POMPONI(us)
MVSA. Wt. 63-2 grs.
This moneyer, in allusion to his name, placed the nine
Muses on his coins. He held office in B.C. 67.
17. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of city, turreted ; beneath, ALEX-
ANDREA. Rev. M. Lepidus, crowning Ptolemy Epiphanes.
Inscription, M .
LEPIDVS
TVTOR REG(is) S . C . PONTIF .
MAX. Wt. 61-5 grs.
The M. Lepidus who struck this coin, about B.C. 65,
was a descendant of the M. Lepidus who was sent to
Egypt, B.C. 200, as guardian of Ptolemy V. during his
minority.
18. Rome. JR. Obv. Head of Diana, surmounted by crescent
behind, lituus. Eev. Sulla, seated ; before him a kneeling man
(Bocchus) holds up a branch of olive, and behind him a bearded
captive, Jugurtha, also kneeling, Moneyer, FAVSTVS FELIX.
Wt. 59-7 grs.
These coins were struck by Faustus Sulla, son of the
dictator, about B.C. 62. The reverse type alludes to the
betrayal of Jugurtha to Sulla by Bocchus, in B.C. 106.
19. Rome. JR. 06?;. LIBERTAS. Head of Liberty, wearing earring
and necklace. Bev. BRVTVS. Brutus, consul B.C. 509,
between two lictors, with axes and fasces, and preceded by an
accensus. Wt. 63 grs.
There is no moneyer's name on this coin, but it cannot
be doubted that it was struck by Q. Csepio Brutus, better
known as M. Junius Brutus. Probably issued in B.C. 58.
20. Rome. M. Obv. REX A R ETAS. King Aretas, kneeling
beside a camel, which he holds by the halter. Moneyer, M .
SCAVR(us) AED(ilis) CVR(ulis) EX . S . C . Bev. Jupiter^
in quadriga. In exergue, C . HYPSAE . COS . PREIVER(num)
CAPTV(m). Moneyer, P . HYPSAEVS
AED(ilis) CVR(ulis).
Wt. 63 grs.
Struck in B.C. 58, under the aedileship of Scaurus and
P. Hypsaeus. Aretas, king of the Nabathaeans, had submitted
to Scaurus, then governor of Syria, a few years
before. This is the first coin of the Roman series on
which an allusion is made to a contemporary event. The
capture of Privernum by the Consul C. Plautius Hypsseus,
B.C. 341, is commemorated on the reverse. This piece
shows that on certain occasions the senate accorded to
the two curule aediles the right of issuing money.
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