Record ID: CORN-604237
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Republican denarius with only four letters left on the obverse NIVS and a bare head facing right with curly hair and no beard and a defined angular mark at the base of the neck. So perhaps it is a denarius with the head and legend of Marcus Antonius, or Mark Antony (83-30 BC), but must date from at least the time of the Second Triumvirate with Octavian, established in 43 BC. The closest parallels that the recorder can find are on coins from the east, c.32-31 BC, with small lettering behind the head, and the best example of these is illustrated in BMC, Republic III (1970) on Pla…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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