2003.100.9.2: Anonymous Semilibral Aes Grave Sextans, Rome
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.100.9.2
- People
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Anonymous
- Title
- Anonymous Semilibral Aes Grave Sextans, Rome
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 217 BCE-215 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
- Period
- Roman Republican period
- Culture
- Roman Republican
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/72073
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 24.64 g
- Die Axis
- 8
- Denomination
- sextans
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: Before, ROMA
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Purchased in Palermo, September 1943 as one of fifteen for 1,500 lire
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- RRC 39/3
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the daughters of Florence and Mason Hammond
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.100.9.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus; in exergue, two pellets horizontal.
Rev.: Eagle r., holding flower in beak; behind, two pellets; before, ROMA.
Verification Level
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