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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3343969, member: 74282&quot;]Last week&#039;s CNG e-Auction had a fantastic selection of Roman Republic coins from the Andrew McCabe collection. I had several primary targets, all bronzes, but my budget was largely exhausted from purchases earlier in the month and I was outbid on all of them, by surprising margins in some cases. This coin wasn&#039;t on my original bid list but I had noted when going through the original auction that Andrew&#039;s photos made it look much better than CNG&#039;s desaturated photos so I threw a last minute bid in on it and happily it hammered at a dollar or so under my bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>This moneyer struck in 91 B.C. in the wake of the passing of the Lex Papiria which I discussed <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-lex-papiria-de-assis-pondere.329344/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-lex-papiria-de-assis-pondere.329344/">here</a>. This moneyer&#039;s bronze issue is similarly prolific to the L.P.D.A.P. issue discussed in that thread, however whereas the L.P.D.A.P. bronze issue included multiple denominations this moneyer only struck bronze asses. As far as the moneyer himself, I&#039;ve found multiple sources online suggesting he was the stepfather of Brutus, and while I admittedly haven&#039;t spent a ton of time researching the issue yet, I don&#039;t see any evidence for that. This moneyer&#039;s coins are signed D SILANVS L F, the &quot;L F&quot; generally taken to mean Lucii filius or &quot;son of Lucius&quot; whereas the Decimus Junius Silanus connected to Brutus is generally believed to have been the son of Marcius Junius Silanus and so would have suffixed his name &quot;M F&quot;. So the link to Brutus seems to be more wishful thinking(or if I&#039;m being more cynical, outright misrepresentation) by coin sellers hoping to capitalize on the fame of Brutus. The truth seems to be that this moneyer was simply a lesser known member of this large and prominent Patrician family.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]885516[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ As(27mm, 11.12g, 4h), 91 BC, Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I above/Prow of galley right; D•SILANVS•L•[F]. Below, ROMA. Crawford 337/5</p><p>Ex Andrew McCabe Collection, CNG E-Auction 436, 1/23/2019, lot 459, ex Artemide Capodanno, 1/1/2010</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, please share anything relevant[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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