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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24641798, member: 87809&quot;]Nice one [USER=116907]@Mammothtooth[/USER] and quite scarce.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Valerius Messalla Volusus, moneyer under Augustus in 6/5 BC, so this type was struck in Rome 6/5 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Offices Volusus held included proconsul of the Roman province of Asia where his cruelties drew on him the anger of Augustus. Augustus wrote of the fall of Lucius Valerius in his book, de Voleso Messala.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same coinage; my pictures are not good - I just can&#039;t do any better:</p><p><br /></p><p>26 x 27 mm, 9.908 g;</p><p>RIC² 441; CBN 738; BMCRE 241-242;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: CAESAR•AVGVST•PONT MAX•TRIBVNIC•P-OT bare head to right</p><p>Rev.: VOLVSVS VALER•MESSAL•IIIVIR•A•A•A•F F around large S•C</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1568089[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1568090[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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