quinarius of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi

Couple Imperatorial Quinarii...


RImp Lepidus Mark Antony 43 BC AR quinarius 13.9m 1.82g Military mint TransAl Gaul pontificate Cr 489-3 Syd 1158a RSC 3 RARE



RImp Marc Antony 43 BCE AR Quinarius 13mm 1.67g Lugdunum Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia Lion DVNI LVGV Cr 489-5 Syd 1160

 

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I have said it before Brian but that Fulvia is amazing.

 

Couple Early Republic Quinarii...


RR
Anon AR Quinarius 211-210 BCE
Aplulian mint 16.5mm 2.1g
Roma in Phrygian helmet
Dioscuri Craw 102-2b
RARE


RR
Anon after 211 BCE
AR Quinarius 2.12g
Helmeted hd Roma -
Dioscuri riding
Cr 68-2b was 44-6 RSC 3
ex Clain-Stefanelli

 

You mean Olive Oyl?

 

I'm not to late for the quinarii fiesta I hope?

Some great coins posted! Here are the only two quinarii I have in my collection so far



L. Piso Frugi. 90 BC. AR Quinarius (14 mm, 2.16 g). Rome mint.

Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right, club (control mark) in left field.

Reverse: Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm-branch, L PI - SO across fields, FRVGI in exergue.

Reference: Crawford 340/2e

Provenance: Naville Numismatics, Auction 42 (22 July 2018), lot 422. Ex Sternberg Auction 18 (20 November 1986), lot 323.




Mark Antony. Early 42 BC. AR Quinarius (13mm, 1.88 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint.

Obverse: Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia; III·VIR downwards in left field; R·P·C upwards in right field.

Reverse: Lion walking right; ANTONI above; A - XLI ( = 41, Antony’s age at time of issue) across field; IMP in exergue.

Reference: Crawford 489/6

Provenance: Numismatik Naumann Auction 73 (6 January 2019), lot 440.

 

Sorry to say, I vaguely recall driving-up your cost for this coin. Love it.

 

Can't help it guys, I really like Quinarii... Here are a couple more. Sorry, @Valentinian for doing a little hijacking...


RR Anon AR Quinarius 211-210 BCE 16mm 2.14g SE Italia mint Roma V ROMA Dioscuri Cr 85-1a SYD 174 RSC33b ex RBW SCARCE



RImp Marc Antony & Octavian AR Quinarius 1.58g Military Mint Gaul 39BCE Concordia r Hands clasped caduceus Cr-529-4b Sear 1575 Syd-1195


I recommend Cathy King's book...

 

Another Imperial Quinarius (another Hadrian that I have...)

Not a purdy one, but Imperial AR Quinarii are more "fun" to capture.

RI Hadrian 117-138 AR Quinarius Victory holding palm

 

No worries, seeing how rare these are in this grade I was prepared it was gonna go high, especially as it was auctioned during the summer in a pretty mediocre sale. I expected hungry bidders. It seems to have gone unpaid from a Gorny & Mosch auction just 1 or two months prior. That's where it caught my eye, so was very glad to see it appear at Naville. Just hammered about 100€ above the Gorny hammer if I remember correctly.

 

I am also not ready to let this go, so my apologies as well to @Valentinian if this qualified as "hijacking" - perhaps defensible as enthusiasm for the topic of the OP.

Here's one more from the "Second Period":

C. Egnatuleius C. f. AR Quinarius, Rome, 97 BC.
Obv: C EGNATVLEI C F Laureate head of Apollo; Q below
Rev: Victory standing left, inscribing shield attached to trophy; at base, carnyx to left; Q in field, ,ROMA in exergue
Ref: Crawford 333/1; King 36; Sydenham 588; Egnatuleia 1
Size: 1.56g, 16mm
Crawford argues that the quinarii issued in 99-97 are to be linked with Marius' colonizing activity and with Saturninus' leges agraria (land grants in cis-alpine Gaul). The enormous issues of 99-97 suggest that the lex agraria of 100 was put into effect and that Rome struck money especially for the purpose of financing viritane settlement (grants of Roman citizenship and land) to Marius' veterans...for more on the Apuleia Agraria, proposed by L. Apuleius Saturninus in BC 101:

Then Apuleius brought forward a law to divide the land which the Cimbri (a Celtic tribe lately driven out by Marius) had seized in the country now called Gaul by the Romans, and which was considered as now no longer Gallic but Roman territory. It was provided also in this law that, if the people should enact it, the senators should take an oath within five days to obey it, and that any one who should refuse to do so should be expelled from the Senate and should pay a fine of twenty talents for the benefit of the people. Thus they intended to punish those who should take it with bad grace, and especially Metellus, who was too high-spirited to submit to the oath. Such was the proposed law. Apuleius appointed the day for holding the comitia and sent messengers to inform those in country districts, in whom he had the utmost confidence, because they had served in the army under Marius. As the law gave the larger share to the Italian allies the city people were not pleased with it.
- Appian The Civil Wars

More also in this thread of @red_spork.

 

Here is one I have not seen posted yet.

Marc Antony

 

Great thread. Many rare examples. Here are a few quinarii that haven't been cited so far:
The style of this example is closest to RRC 47/1 because of the visor (top line of the visor is longest of the three. Otherwise the obverse and reverse styles are unlike anything in RRC. Pierluigi Debernardi references this type in his article on the Orzivecchi hoard in NC 2014, where he cites a half dozen examples in such places as BNF and Kestner.

Not as rare as the denarius, but the upright spearhead quinarius is a remarkable coin with the spearhead symbol a major element of the reverse design, displacing the ROMA legend to less than 2/3 of the exergue.
RRC 84/2 with reverse Roma acronym is a very scarce coin in any grade. Crawford lists less than 10 obverse and less than 12 reverse dies.