Roman Republican. P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus. 236-283 BC. Æ Medal (32mm, 14.34 g, 12h). Roman Series: The Honor of Scipio. By J. Dassier and sons. Dated 542 AUC (212 BC)
[issued mid-18th century]. P. CORNEL. SCIPION L AFRIQUAIN, draped bust left, wearing lion skin / Scene of the Continence of Scipio: Scipio seated left, refusing a captured young woman and returning her to her fiancé; in three lines in exergue, CONTINENCE DE/SCIPION/A R 542. Catenacci pp. 64-5. EF, brown surfaces, metal impurity on cheek.
Jean Dassier’s series of medals illustrating Roman history consisted of 61 pieces, covering important individuals and events throughout Rome’s early history, from the city’s founding by Romulus, the rape of the Sabine women, and the rule of Numa Pompilius, to the fall of the Republic with the murder of Caesar, the second triumvirate, and rise of Augustus.
