C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.84 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Quirinus right, wearing long hair and beard in formal ringlets; QVIRINVS downward to left, C • MEMMI • C • F downward to right / Ceres seated right, holding torch in left hand and three stalks of grain in right; to right, serpent erect; MEMMIVS • AED • CERIALIA • PREIMVS • FECIT around. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Kestner 3463-4; BMCRR Rome 3940-2; Memmia 9. Superb EF, toned.
Ex Patrick Tan Collection; Numismatica Ars Classica 54 (24 March 2010), lot 240; Numismatica Ars Classica 29 (11 May 2005), lot 369.
