Tools for Striking Coinage

421, Lot: 597. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. T. Carisius. 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.92 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Moneta right; MONE[TA] to left / Implements for coining money: anvil die with garlanded punch die above, tongs and hammer on either side; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 464/2; CRI 70; Sydenham 982b; Carisia 1b; RBW. Good VF, light scratches and tiny metal flaws.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini XI (12 January 2014), lot 378 (hammer of $800).

A temple to Juno Moneta (Juno “the Advisor”) was dedicated on the Capitoline Hill in 344 BC and its grounds served as Rome’s first mint. The association between this temple and the minting of coinage was such that the English words “mint,” “money,” and “monetary” derive from “moneta.”