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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Stolt, post: 3962553, member: 100445&quot;]Picked up my Christmas present to myself that I won over at Hess Divo earlier this month. I should have gotten it before Christmas but the package was almost two weeks delayed for unknown reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, I&#039;m super happy to be able to add a third Social War coin to my collection within the span of just one year. This type is quite rare, and difficult to obtain in the first place. So the somewhat rough surfaces don&#039;t bother me too much. And the provenance can&#039;t get much better.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also a plate coin in Alberto Campana&#039;s work on the Social War coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1043651[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Social War. Coinage of the Marsic Confederation.</b> AR Denarius (19mm 3.72 g). Moving mint in Campania(?). Struck 88-87 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: <i>Bust of Minerva left, wearing aegis and crested helmet, crowned by Victory standing behind her.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: <i>Soldier(or Mars?), nude to waist, standing facing, helmeted head turned right, holding lance with his right hand, sword in his lowered left hand; on left, four shields attached to a tree, on right, forepart of bull reclining right, in exergue, IIIV.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Campana 121, 170c (this specimen, illustr. on pl. 9)</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance: Ex Othon Leonardos collection, J. Schulman, Amsterdam (31 May 1927), lot 339. Ex Joseph Martini collection, R. Ratto, Lugano (24 February 1930), lot 247. R. Ratto, Lugano - Fixed Price List VIII (1933), lot 176. Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 70 (16 May 2013), lot 97. Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 92 (23 May 2016), lot 1787. Hess Divo, Auction 338 (3 December 2019), lot 2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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