- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1963.44.37
- People
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Moneyer: L. Memmius, Roman
- Title
- Denarius of L. Memmius, Rome
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 109 or 108 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
- Period
- Roman Republican period
- Culture
- Roman Republican
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/181264
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.9 g
- Die Axis
- 8
- Denomination
- denarius
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: Before, mark of value (XVI in monogram)
- Reverse Inscription: In exergue, L.MEMMI
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- RRC 304/1
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb in memory of William Eliot Lamb, Class of 1858, Keeper and Cataloguer of the coins of the University in that year
- Accession Year
- 1963
- Object Number
- 1963.44.37
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Young male head (?Apollo) r., wearing oak-wreath; before, mark of value (XVI in monogram). Border of dots.
Rev.: Dioscuri standing facing between their horses, each holding spear; in exergue, [L.]MEMM[I]. Border of dots.
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