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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2219271, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a Republican denarius from the Chicago ANA with a lots of letters and a building on it. It is the Villa Publica, as it explicitly says upwards to the right. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434577[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]434578[/ATTACH] </p><p>Silver denarius. 18 mm. 55 BC.</p><p>P. Fonteius P.f. Capito</p><p>Concordia bust right, veiled</p><p>P FONTEIVS CAPITO III VIR CONCORDIA</p><p>[Note the name of the moneyer, his title (Triumvir [of the mint]) and the name of the personification]</p><p>Two-story Villa Publica (originally in the Campus Martius in Rome, but nothing of it remains)</p><p>T DIDI down left, IMP in ex., VIL PVB up right.</p><p>Sear 393. Crawford 429/2.</p><p>Sear says one of its restorations was by T. Didius in 98 BC, hence the credit in the legend down the left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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