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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7656338, member: 110350&quot;]Roman Republic, C. [Caius/Gaius] Calpurnius Piso L.f. [son of Lucius] caesare [<i>son-in-law of Cicero, married to Tullia</i>], AR Denarius, 67-59 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right in high relief, hair long and in ringlets; behind, control symbol ɸ (Greek letter phi) (Crawford obverse die 32; Hersh 1976 obverse die O-33) / Rev. Naked horseman galloping right wearing shaped conical cap, holding reins but carrying no palm branch or other object; above, control symbol sword [Crawford] or knife [Hersh 1976] with curved blade [Crawford reverse die 43, Hersh 1976 reverse die R-1038]; beneath horse, C• PISO• L• F• FRVG [with VG blurred on die]. Crawford 408/1a [Apollo laureate rather than wearing fillet]; BMCRR Rome 3774 [this die combination]; Hersh 1976 at p. 32, Corpus No. 89 [this die combination]; RSC I Calpurnia 24j [Apollo laureate/horseman wearing conical cap &amp; carrying no palm branch or other object]; Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i> <i>63 BCE - 49 BCE</i> (2d ed. 2015) (“Harlan RRM II”), Ch. 7 at pp. 54-59; Sear RCV I 348; Sydenham 846. 18 mm., 3.86 g. 6 h.&nbsp; [<i>Double die-match to Ira &amp; Larry Goldberg Auction 80, Lot 3048, 03.06.2014 (see </i><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2012900.*" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2012900.*" rel="nofollow"><i>https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2012900</i></a><i>), previously sold</i> by <i>LHS Numismatik AG, Auction 100, Lot 398, 23/04/2007.</i> ] [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316322[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Another Calpurnius Piso Frugi, either Caius or his father Lucius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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