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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4839610, member: 57495&quot;]Here&#039;s an <a href="http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/acans/caesar/Intro_Moneyer.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/acans/caesar/Intro_Moneyer.htm" rel="nofollow">online article</a> that provides a decent summary of the role of the moneyers during the Republic.&nbsp; And here, <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Moneyers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Moneyers" rel="nofollow">an exhaustive list</a> of moneyers from 211-31 BC.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an Afranius, but here&#039;s one of the same design from around the same time, by Publius Cornelius Sulla.&nbsp; In many instances, very little to nothing is known about these moneyers, but Crawford speculates here that the Sulla who issued this coin might have been the grandfather or an uncle of the great dictator Sulla.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1169300[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.89g, 17.5mm. Rome mint, 151 BC, Publius Cornelius Sulla, moneyer. Crawford 205/1; Sydenham 386. O: Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left. R: P.SVLA, Victory driving biga right; ROMA in tablet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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