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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4852566, member: 110350&quot;]This is a follow-up to my thread a while ago about my first 30 Roman Republican coins. (No. 31 was the Manius Aquillius denarius, Crawford 401/1, with Virtus on the obverse and the moneyer&#039;s grandfather raising the personification of Sicily on the reverse; I posted it in the Geographic Personifications thread).</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a type I&#039;ve wanted for some time -- quite a few CT members have posted their examples, and I&#039;ve been envious! -- until I finally saw one recently that I liked enough to buy, plus the seller gave me a nice discount along with free shipping from Spain via DHL Express. (It took only a few days to arrive.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Pomponius Molo, AR Denarius, 97 BCE. Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right, L• POMPON• MOLO / Rev. Numa Pompilius [legendary second king of Rome after Romulus], holding <i>lituus</i> in left hand, standing right before a lighted altar, at which he is about to sacrifice a goat, which is led by a <i>victimarius</i> standing left, NVMA•POMPIL in exergue (MA and MP in monogram). Crawford 334/1, RSC I Pomponia 6 (ill.), BMCRR Italy 733, Sydenham 607, Sear RCV I 214 (ill.). 19.7 mm., 3.86 g. * (<i>Purchased from Marti Classical Numismatics, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2020; Ex. Spanish collection.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171837[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*See RSC I at p. 77: “This type is an allusion to the supposed descent of the <i>gens</i> [Pomponia] from Pompo, one of the sons of Numa Pompilius, who is here represented as sacrificing to Apollo.” Crawford’s interpretation is the same; see Crawford Vol. I at p. 333.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone agree with me that my coin appears to be a double die match with this example, sold in CNG&#039;s E-Auction No. 157, Jan. 2007, as Lot 149?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171838[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Photo from CNG Archives.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The CNG example can also be found in the two CRRO Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) pages for Crawford 334/1, which are unindexed (there is an index entry for Crawford 334, but it takes you to images of Crawford 344!), and are located in the Schaefer clippings files, rather than in the Schaefer binders.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one other example in the CRRO Crawford 334/1 pages of what I believe to be an obverse die match, and several examples of what I believe to be reverse die matches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possible obverse die match:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171843[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Possible reverse die matches:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171848[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171849[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone would like to offer an opinion on whether these actually are die matches, and/or to post their own goats (Pomponius Molo or otherwise), please be my guest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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