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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5237863, member: 110350"]When I posted my Top 10 list, consisting entirely of Republican coins, one of them (the Naevius Balbus with the triga) was my Republican coin no. 42. But I never posted no. 41, which also recently arrived (after a lengthy and circuitous voyage from Spain). It didn't quite make my top 10, so I sort of forgot about it until today. Plus I didn't particularly like the dealer's photo, and mine isn't much better: the coin is very shiny in hand, and I'm not good at photographing such coins. (Also, what looks like a discolored patch near the top of the reverse is actually just a shadow, caused by the fact that the coin is quite concave in that area.) With all those caveats, I really do like it. For one thing, it's one of the few examples I've seen where the legend beneath the arches of the aqueduct (including the monogram at the end) is complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Marcius Philippus, AR Denarius, 56 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Ancus Marcius [<i>fourth King of Rome</i>] right, lituus behind, ANCVS below / Rev. The Aqua Marcia aqueduct, represented as an arcade of five arches surmounted by an equestrian statue right [<i>portraying Quintus Marcius Rex, builder of that aqueduct</i>], with horse rearing; flower below horse; PHILIPPVS on left, AQVAMAR [MAR in monogram] within the arches. Crawford 425/1, RSC I Marcia 28, Sydenham 919, Sear RCV I 382 (ill.), Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i> <i>63 BCE - 49 BCE</i> (2d ed. 2015) (“RRM II”), Ch. 15 at pp. 122-128. 18 mm., 3.92 mm., 7 h.*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* The moneyer, Lucius Marcius Philippus (triumvir in 56 BCE, praetor in 44, suffect consul in 38 BCE) was the stepbrother of Gaius Octavius [later Augustus] (age seven at the time of this issue). The moneyer’s father, also named Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul in 56 BCE), was Octavius's stepfather by virtue of marrying the widow Atia, who was the mother of Octavius and Julius Caesar's niece (the daughter of Caesar’s sister Julia and her husband M. Atius Balbus). See Sear RCV I at p.145, Harlan, RRM II at pp. 122, 127-128.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>gens</i> Marcia, to which the moneyer belonged, was named after Ancus Marcius, depicted on the obverse -- the legendary fourth king of Rome, who was the founder of that <i>gens</i>, and, therefore, the moneyer’s ancestor. (The lituus probably represents the king's augurship.) Quintus Marcius Rex, the horseman depicted by the equestrian statue atop the Aqua Marcia aqueduct on the reverse, and the builder of that aqueduct in 144 BCE when he was praetor, was a distant cousin of the moneyer. However, he was not actually the moneyer’s ancestor, because Quintus belonged to the Reges branch of the <i>gens</i> Marcia, rather than the moneyer's Philippi branch of that <i>gens. </i>The two branches had separated by the end of the third century. Harlan, RRM II at pp.122-126. See id. for details on the size of the aqueduct and its reputation (according to Pliny) of having the coolest and most healthful waters of all Roman aqueducts. See Pliny, <i>Naturalis Historia</i>, 31.41.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any idea what the flower beneath the horse signifies? None of the sources I looked at said anything about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5237863, member: 110350"]When I posted my Top 10 list, consisting entirely of Republican coins, one of them (the Naevius Balbus with the triga) was my Republican coin no. 42. But I never posted no. 41, which also recently arrived (after a lengthy and circuitous voyage from Spain). It didn't quite make my top 10, so I sort of forgot about it until today. Plus I didn't particularly like the dealer's photo, and mine isn't much better: the coin is very shiny in hand, and I'm not good at photographing such coins. (Also, what looks like a discolored patch near the top of the reverse is actually just a shadow, caused by the fact that the coin is quite concave in that area.) With all those caveats, I really do like it. For one thing, it's one of the few examples I've seen where the legend beneath the arches of the aqueduct (including the monogram at the end) is complete. Roman Republic, L. Marcius Philippus, AR Denarius, 56 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Ancus Marcius [[I]fourth King of Rome[/I]] right, lituus behind, ANCVS below / Rev. The Aqua Marcia aqueduct, represented as an arcade of five arches surmounted by an equestrian statue right [[I]portraying Quintus Marcius Rex, builder of that aqueduct[/I]], with horse rearing; flower below horse; PHILIPPVS on left, AQVAMAR [MAR in monogram] within the arches. Crawford 425/1, RSC I Marcia 28, Sydenham 919, Sear RCV I 382 (ill.), Harlan, Michael, [I]Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins[/I] [I]63 BCE - 49 BCE[/I] (2d ed. 2015) (“RRM II”), Ch. 15 at pp. 122-128. 18 mm., 3.92 mm., 7 h.* [ATTACH=full]1217595[/ATTACH] * The moneyer, Lucius Marcius Philippus (triumvir in 56 BCE, praetor in 44, suffect consul in 38 BCE) was the stepbrother of Gaius Octavius [later Augustus] (age seven at the time of this issue). The moneyer’s father, also named Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul in 56 BCE), was Octavius's stepfather by virtue of marrying the widow Atia, who was the mother of Octavius and Julius Caesar's niece (the daughter of Caesar’s sister Julia and her husband M. Atius Balbus). See Sear RCV I at p.145, Harlan, RRM II at pp. 122, 127-128. The [I]gens[/I] Marcia, to which the moneyer belonged, was named after Ancus Marcius, depicted on the obverse -- the legendary fourth king of Rome, who was the founder of that [I]gens[/I], and, therefore, the moneyer’s ancestor. (The lituus probably represents the king's augurship.) Quintus Marcius Rex, the horseman depicted by the equestrian statue atop the Aqua Marcia aqueduct on the reverse, and the builder of that aqueduct in 144 BCE when he was praetor, was a distant cousin of the moneyer. However, he was not actually the moneyer’s ancestor, because Quintus belonged to the Reges branch of the [I]gens[/I] Marcia, rather than the moneyer's Philippi branch of that [I]gens. [/I]The two branches had separated by the end of the third century. Harlan, RRM II at pp.122-126. See id. for details on the size of the aqueduct and its reputation (according to Pliny) of having the coolest and most healthful waters of all Roman aqueducts. See Pliny, [I]Naturalis Historia[/I], 31.41. Does anyone have any idea what the flower beneath the horse signifies? None of the sources I looked at said anything about it.[/QUOTE]
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