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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8353190, member: 110350&quot;]Great coins! Out of all my Roman Republican coins, I have only three with Jupiter on the obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Cn. Lentulus Clodianus Cornelia, AR Quinarius [half denarius], Rome 88 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Rev. Victory standing right, crowning trophy; in exergue, CN•LENT. Crawford 345/2, RSC I Cornelia 51a (ill.), BMCRR 2443-2444, Sear RCV I 255 (ill.), Sydenham 703, RBW Collection 1313.&nbsp; 14x15 mm., 1.99 g. [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482377[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Procilius L.f., AR Denarius, 80 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Jupiter R., S C behind/ Rev. Juno Sospita advancing R., wearing Etruscan shoes turned up at the toe, holding figure-eight shield [prob. an allusion to the mythological Shield of the Salii priests, or <i>ancilia</i>] in left hand and hurling spear with right hand; snake before; behind, L. PROCILI/F downwards.&nbsp; RSC I Procilia 1 (ill.), Crawford 379/1, Sydenham 771, Sear RCV I 306 (ill.), Harlan, RRM I Ch. 4 at pp. 19-22 [Michael Harlan, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, 81 BCE-64 BCE (2012)], BMCRR Rome 3147. 19.5 mm., 3.6 g. (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., NYINC Jan. 2020.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482378[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, 47/46 BCE, N. Africa, Utica (provincial capital 30 mi. NW of site of Carthage) <b><u>or</u></b> mobile military mint traveling with Scipio’s camp [<i>see Sear Imperatorial</i> (CRI), infra at p. 34]. Obv. Laureate head of Jupiter right, Q. METEL around to right, <u>PI</u>VS in exergue (PI ligate)/ Rev. African elephant walking right, SCIPIO above, IMP in exergue. Crawford 459/1, Sear Imperatorial (CRI) 45 (pp. 33-34) [David Sear, <i>The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators</i> 49-27 BC (1998)], RSC I Caecilia [Babelon] 47 (ill. p. 21), Sear RCV I 1379 (ill. p. 262), RBW Collection 1601 (ill. p. 337), BMCRR Africa 1, Claire Rowan, <i>From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC - AD 14), Using Coins as Sources</i> (Cambridge 2019) at pp. 44-45 &amp; Fig. 2.22. 19.5 mm., 3.78 g. <i>Purchased from Germania Inferior Numismatics, Netherlands, Dec. 2021</i>. [Footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482379[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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