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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8005489, member: 99456&quot;]Glad to see this fellow has a good home! As the Gauls were defeated and the Roman colony of Narbo established, their protective gear seems proven to be ineffective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another type from the same issue: <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-282.3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-282.3" rel="nofollow">RRC 282/3</a> C MALLE C F on obverse with same reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388764[/ATTACH]</p><p>For a fun read related to this coin - <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/296190" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/296190" rel="nofollow">here is the 1922 paper that Crawford references in 1974 RRC</a> where Mattingly shifts the dating from 92 BC and associates the coin with Narbo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford didn&#039;t support other hypotheses from this paper e.g. the explanation for mark of value:</p><blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1388771[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The 1877 article in Revue Archeologique (RA) that Crawford references is <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.104731/page/n143/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.104731/page/n143/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><blockquote><p><i><font size="3">&quot;If we think of the importance that the complete defeat of the Allobroges and Arvernes had for the Romans, it is not surprising that they sought to perpetuate the memory by raising the Triumphal Arch of Orange and by striking coins featuring the captive king defeated by the Roman chiefs. Barely three years after the glorious feats of arms of which we have just spoken, the colony of Narbo Martius (Narbonne) was founded, which became the capital of the Roman province.&quot;</font></i></p><p><font size="3">-J. De Witte, RA, 1887, 2, 137 (translation)</font></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>De Witte didn&#039;t complete the connection: 92 av. J.C.</p><blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1388786[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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