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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2461509, member: 72818&quot;]Unless a collector has a deep craving for denarii of the Roman Republic, this rather worn example may not generate much interest, yet I immediately recognized it as a significant variation from those I already own and decided to go after it. The obverse of &#039;Sybil&#039; is artistically rendered and the tripod reverse interesting if not spectacular, communicating the moneyers ancestral connection to the fifteen responsible for maintaining the sacred books---- the &#039;torque&#039; around the tripod stressing the &#039;Torquatus&#039; cognomen of a branch of the Manlii. As an added &#039;bonus&#039; the coin is considered highly scarce and given a R3 rating.....and the provenance of Clain-Stefanelli speaks for itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Manlius denarius, Rome mint, 65 BC</p><p>18mm, 3,42 grams; RRC 411/1b, CRR 836</p><p>Head of the Sibyl wearing a grapevine wreath, SYBIL below.</p><p>Front view of a tripod, all within wreath/torque, two stars over amphora</p><p>L TORQVAT III VIR</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post any coin you would like to share......</p><p>[ATTACH=full]516169[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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