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Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender.In modern times, the abbreviation RRC, "Roman Republican Coinage" originally the name of a reference work on the topic by Michael H. Crawford, has come to be used as an identifying tag for coins assigned a number in that work, such as RRC 367.
The large number of coins required to raise an army and pay for supplies often necessitated the debasement of the coinage. An example of this is the denarii that were struck by Mark Antony to pay his army during his battles against Octavian. These coins, slightly smaller in diameter than a normal denarius, were made of noticeably debased silver ...
The reverse legend reads LEG (legionis, "of the legion"), plus a number (I-XXIII), identifying a specific legion within Antony's forces. [1] A variant issue (RRC 544/12) has the same obverse design, but a different reverse design, showing three naval standards and the legend CHORTIS SPECVLATORVM ("[coin] of the cohort of scouts"). [1]
Up to 50,000 Roman coins have been discovered by divers off the coast of Sardinia. According to an initial estimate, made on the basis of the overall weight of the find, the number of large bronze ...
A Roman imperial coin of Marcus Claudius Tacitus, who ruled briefly from 275 to 276, follows the convention of obverse and reverse coin traditions. Legend: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG / VICTORIA GOTTHI The obverse and reverse are the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money , flags , seals , medals , drawings ...
The title page of Gennaro Riccio's work. There are some specific works on the coins of Luceria. The first is a text written in 1846 under the title Le monete attribuite alla zecca dell'antica città di Luceria, whose author is Gennaro Riccio, a scholar of the time who published several other works including Le monete delle antiche famiglie di Roma, on the coins of the Roman republic.
While at first the 53-year-old uncovered only discarded metal tent pegs, he dug a little deeper and hidden below was a valuable silver Roman siliqua coin said to be about 1,600 years old.
The recovered coins were "solidi," meaning that they were made of pure gold, and INRA noted that the government of Luxembourg had given 308,600 euros to the "beneficiaries" of the coin hoard ...