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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 1628845, member: 44132&quot;]Ron, that is one gorgeous coin.&nbsp; The only Piso coin I own is a broken Denarius I recently picked up for a good price.</p><p><br /></p><p>L CALPURNIUS PISO CAESONINUS &amp; Q SERVILIUS CAEPIO, AR Denarius Crawford 330/1a, struck at Rome in 100 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>OBV:&nbsp; Head of Saturn facing right, harpa and legend PISO behind, CAEPIO and symbol below, Q below chin</p><p>REV:&nbsp; AD FRV EMV EX SC, the two quaestors seated left between 2 grain ears</p><p>[ATTACH]232345.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]232346.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana">This piece was minted circa 100 BC under the authority of the moneyers L. Calpurnius Piso Caesonius and Q. Servilius Capeio, Quaestors. The obverse depicts the head of Saturn facing right, harpa and legend PISO behind, CAEPIO and symbol below, Q below chin. The reverse features the two Quaestors seated left between corn ears, with legends AD.FRV.EMV./EX.SC. This is an abbreviated form of &quot;Ad Frumentum Emundum, ex Senatus Consulto&quot;. This piece was minted specifically for use in conjunction with a law that was passed to allow people to buy corn for &quot;a semis and a triens for a modius&quot;. The Senate ordered the quaestors to strike a special issue of coins so that they could fulfil the provisions of the law. A very decent example of this scarcer historical type, issued for an early form of price control!</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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