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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2876748, member: 74282&quot;]For my submission to this thread let&#039;s try a bronze of another moneyer who, like the moneyer of your coin, is generally identified as one of the historians whose work has not survived in full but was a source for Livy and others. The moneyer who signed his coins CN GEL is traditionally identified as the historian Gellius whose history is believed to have covered from the mythical foundation of the city to circa 145 B.C. or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]688656[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic Æ quadrans(18.3 mm, 6.16 g, 11 h). Cnaeus Gellius, moneyer, 138 B.C. Rome mint. Head of young Hercules right, wearing lion&#039;s skin headdress, three pellets behind / CN·GEL, prow of galley right, three pellets below. ROMA below. Crawford 232/4; Sydenham 435b; Russo RBW 965.</p><p>Ex RBW collection, ex Goodman collection via private purchase 12/7/1996[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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