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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3050752, member: 44316&quot;]Unlike imperial coins that explicitly name an emperor, few Roman Republican coins have types that indicate the date of the coin. Nevertheless, scholars assign them dates. In 2016 I wrote a web site on how scholars assign dates to Republican coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Today I added this coin to that page:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]763393[/ATTACH] </p><p>Denarius. 20-19 mm.</p><p>Victory crowning winged helmeted head of Roma right. X&nbsp; behind.</p><p>The Dioscuri riding right, ROMA in exergue, and below the horses</p><p>C TER LVC for C. Terentius Lucanus, who is unknown to history (although he may be related to the man who freed the playwright Terence). </p><p>When is it from? How do we know? </p><p>&nbsp; This type is interesting for being early (because the design is the Dioscuri riding right, which continues the first denarius design), yet it is the first type to add the extra &quot;Victory crowning Roma&quot; to the obverse. Clearly, the reference is to some victory. But, Roman were fighting wars continually. Which war?&nbsp; Which victory?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; My page has a link at the top to the rest of the story about this coin. It is within a timeline of important Republican events and types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us an interesting Republican coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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