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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8038609, member: 57495"]As usual, Curtis, an enlightening and entertaining thread! Here's my L Censorinus denarius with the Hommel Collection tags it came with. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392159[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.89g, 17mm. Rome mint, 82 BC. L. Marcius Censorinus, moneyer. Crawford 363/1d; Sydenham 737. O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: Marsyas standing left, holding wineskin over shoulder; to right, column surmounted by statue of Minerva(?) standing left; L • CENSOR down left.</p><p><i>Ex Prof Dr Hildebrecht Hommel Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The smaller one seems to be in the same handwriting as the older tag that came with [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]'s Caecilius Metellus denarius, so perhaps this too came from Fritz Hommel's collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8038609, member: 57495"]As usual, Curtis, an enlightening and entertaining thread! Here's my L Censorinus denarius with the Hommel Collection tags it came with. [ATTACH=full]1392159[/ATTACH] [B]ROMAN REPUBLIC[/B] AR Denarius. 3.89g, 17mm. Rome mint, 82 BC. L. Marcius Censorinus, moneyer. Crawford 363/1d; Sydenham 737. O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: Marsyas standing left, holding wineskin over shoulder; to right, column surmounted by statue of Minerva(?) standing left; L • CENSOR down left. [I]Ex Prof Dr Hildebrecht Hommel Collection[/I] The smaller one seems to be in the same handwriting as the older tag that came with [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]'s Caecilius Metellus denarius, so perhaps this too came from Fritz Hommel's collection.[/QUOTE]
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