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Auction: 1009 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 424

Civil War (AD 68-69), Denarius, 3.28g, Spain, April- June AD 68, diademed and draped female bust right, hair knotted above neck, bon event, rev. paci pr, clasped right hands holding winged caduceus (cf. RIC 4-6; BMC 4-5 and P-H Martin 42-43), a British find, with an obverse head that is an amalgamation of the cited examples and of a delicacy not seen on the published examples, edge-split not affecting the types, unusually good metal, very fine, very rare Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 provenance Found 2007, Hickington, Lincs, recorded with Portable Antiquities Service, PAS LIN/898441 This issue is thought to have been struck at Tarraco in Spain by Galba before the death of Nero. The obverse type looks back to the Republican past, copying a denarius of L. Scribonius Libo of 62 BC (Cr. 416).

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