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163, Lot: 231. Estimate $150.
Sold for $163. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Q. Servilius Caepio, quaestors. 100 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.97 g). Head of Saturn right, harpa behind; uncertain symbol above / Two quaestors seated left between two stalks of grain. Crawford 330/1b; Sydenham 603a; Calpurnia 5a; cf. BMCRR 1128 and Kestner 2635 for symbol.. Good VF, toned.



Ex Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 783.

BMCRR and Kestner call this symbol a wheel, while Crawford sees a hare. The device seems more complex than either. The known symbols of 330/1a form a coherent group- bow, arrow and trident; either straightforward weapons or attributes of the Olympians. 330/1b is more problematic- star, crescent, wheel(?) and monogram. The star and crescent suggest a astrological component. Both types refer to the aerarium Saturni, a reduction in the cost of state grain distributions proposed by L. Appuleius Saturninus.