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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3050902, member: 44132&quot;]Nice example [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They are all interesting.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]763482[/ATTACH] </p><p>I. MINUCIUS C.F. AUGURINUS </p><p>AR DENARIUS </p><p>OBVERSE: Head of Roma right, star behind</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; TI MINVCI C F on left, RO-MA above, AVGVRINI on right; 2 togate figures, one holding a simpulum, the other a lituus, standing by statue on column, grain ears on either side of the column </p><p>Rome, 134 BC</p><p>3.86g, 17mm</p><p>Cr243/1, Syd 494, Minucia 9</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse refers to a bronze monument erected outside of Portia Trigemina (at Rome) to L. Minucius Augurinus for his distribution of corn to the common people at a low price. The column and statue (a modius with corn ears) was erected at public expense&nbsp; some time after. Undoubtably there are subtle issues to this reference that did not survive the passage of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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