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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1120

P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (c.50 BC), Denarius, 3.92g, bare head of M. Claudius Marcellus (consul 222 BC) right, triskeles behind, marcellinvs, rev. M. Claudius Marcellus, togate, carrying trophy into tetrastyle temple of Jupiter Feretrius, marcellvs cos qvinc (Cr.439/1; Syd.1147), good very fine

On this coin the moneyer recalls the exploits of his illustrious ancestor, who was consul five times, captured Syracuse in 211BC (hence the triskeles on the obv.), and dedicated the spoils he took from the Gaulish chieftain Britomartus, whom he had slain with his own hands, in the temple of Jupiter in 222BC.

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