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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2782997, member: 76194&quot;]This is probably the last coin I&#039;m getting before my upcoming trip to Cuba in 3 weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus denarius, minted as an emergency issue to pay Pompey&#039;s troops in Spain and keep them from mutinying.</p><p><br /></p><p>So while not a coin of Pompey, this coin was used by Pompey&#039;s soldiers, and Pompey himself might have received many of these coins as payment too...so who knows, Pompey&#039;s might have used this coin to buy some supplies (well, his slaves anyway). I doubt Pompey&#039;s did his own shopping.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s got a nice bit of dark toning, like the other RR coin I got yesterday. I love me some old toning much better than shinny recently cleaned/overcleaned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is my 14th Roman Republic coin, and will be my last silver one for a while. My next Roman Republic coins have to be bronze. I&#039;m bummed out by not having any Republic era Bronzes yet. Something I must remedy before the year is out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644286[/ATTACH]</p><p>ROMAN REPUBLIC. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus.</p><p>AR Denarius, 4.0g, 20mm, 6h; Spanish Mint, 74 BC.</p><p>Obv.: Diademed, draped and bearded bust of the Genius of the Roman People facing right, scepter over shoulder, &quot;G P R&quot; above.</p><p>Rev.: Globe between wreathed scepter and rudder, &quot;EX - S C&quot; in field, &quot;CN LEN Q&quot; below.</p><p>Reference: Crawford 393/1a; Sydenham 752.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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