The Amazing Stories told by Roman Republican Coins
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2023
- Roman Republican coins are trully the "diaries" of Ancient Rome, where minor magistrates, the Triumviri Monetales used to show their political affiliation and push their agenda. Lets look at some examples in this video.
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My first republican coin was from 122bc denarius with Papirius Carbo marking his name on the reverse under Jupiter as carb-roma. This denarius came out during the Gracchi brothers attempt at social reform. I can't tell you how much we appreciate all your hard work making these videos. I look forward to getting my alert that a new video is available. Great stuff
I have a republic coin minted by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. He was a partisan of Pompey, and eventually appointed as Roman Consul in 72 BC. He and his colleague, Gellius Poplicola, were sent to command the Roman legions fighting Spartacus and his slave armies in the Third Servile War. They were embarrassingly defeated, and replaced by Crassus.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
@@minasithilindustries, I had no idea about any of that when I bought it. I didn’t even recognize that it was a Roman Republic coin! It was just the first denarius I ever purchased. Learning the history behind the coin is half the fun!
I bought 10 republic denarii from an auction in Milan. They are such high quality in comparison to the low prices i paid and two of them are serrated. I will figure out how to make a video for them in the coming month :) Thanks for this very educational video as always.
What auction it was if i may ask? I am Italian but i often don't find many interesting ancient pieces in our auctions.
@@niccolocolonnelli901 It was in the NAC Milan auction in December and only the Roman republic coins were for Italian citizens only. I haven’t found too many other auctions like it, but the coins went for far less money than they should have. I am also keeping an eye out for an auction like that again, as it’s a great way to get nice coins for cheap prices.
@@Matts_Ancient_Coins Ok thanks 👍🏻
I was fascinated by history from being very young, specially coins - the most tangible link to the past.
I knew no one who shared my passion and I've never understood why I should have had the interest.
I literally just bought my first republican coin! So this video came at the perfect time. Mine is from 155BC (Pinarius Natta) so only one year different than the one you displayed. I love this coin because it's the "Most" roman coin you can find, the personification of Rome on the obvers and the word "Roma" on the reverse. There are so many artistic versions of the face and I'm just so excited that I found one that I think is so lifelike and beautiful! This really makes the hobby fun to hold my own and then get to see your collection!
What a brilliant coin to start your collection! Very very early in the denarius series. Enjoy! :)
I have the Janus coin and the Scipio one. Always a pleasure to see a brother/sister to an artefact I managed to get my grubby mitts on.
Thank you for all your informative videos! It’s interesting to see how the last coin’s obverse is very similar to the Carisius issue with the goddess Moneta. They probably reused some designs and just changed the goddess name!
Great video, really interesting to hear about the people trying to make a name for themselves on coins. Would be amazing to hear about the military mints too, like those from Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar during the republican period
Always a pleasure to watch and an education. I have quite a few to identify, and a few I've identified with your knowledge.
I just bought my first republic coin and I realized it’s the same scipio coin as here
Great channel very in depth and informative.
Thanks you for all the hard work, Leo! I wonder what was the technical process behind the serrated denarii
Glad you enjoyed it! I would guess the serrations were made in a process similar to how rims markings were added to Spanish 8 real coins in the early modern period.
The coin would be laid on a flat surface, its edge in contact with a serrated patch, and some sort of circular movement would be applied to the coin, making sure the entire perimeter of the coin would pass by the serrated bit, leaving these markings
great video. I'm sure the serrated edges on the coins were to stop people shaving off the edges of the silver coin to make more money. They did that with medieval pennies in the UK so they extended the cross on the back to create a 'long cross' penny and of course to cut a cross would be a capital punishment offense in them days.
Thats an interesting proposition, but makes us wonder why didnt they keep the serrations in later periods to prevent clipping throughout the imperial period as well.
@@ClassicalNumismatics very true. I guess the truth is lost to history and we'll never know for certain. I guess we can only speculate.
I have 3 Republican Denarii.
The reverse of 1926/27 Albanian 5 Franga Ari is a spitting image of denarius of G. M. Capito to the extend that I doubt it's a mere coincidence. It would be a cool idea for a video about ancient coins that inspired coins from later centuries.
That would be cool, indeed. I have a Napoleonic coronation medal that looks just like an Augustus denarius!
I find these quite hard to collect, very helpful video.
I only have a lovely quinarius with Castor and Pollux minted in southern Italy in 211 or 210 B.C. The republican world and coinage are fascinating.
This was really neat!
canale molto interessante ed esauriente...da seguire.
Fantastic video
Thanks Leo that was great 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it Gordon! A nice little break from Imperial coins eh?
the serrations were likely added to discourage/make "clipping" apparent (as the name implies, clipping off small parts of each coin in order to pocket some extra silver out of the circulating coins). similar measures were taken with later coinage, iirc
This might be the case with later medieval coinage that was very thin, but I think Roman silver coinage did not suffer much of that problem, at least during republican times and the early Empire. Later roman siliquae, however, are often found clipped.
Ótimo vídeo, parabéns
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I have some ancients I have yet to identify.
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Hi Leo! Denarii of Gargonius, Ogulnius and Vergilius without the name of the moneyers are very common... but with their abbreviated names (on the reverse), they are extremely rare... I believe the head in the obverse is rather a young Vejovis/Jupiter, since it is crowned with oak rather than laurel, and the god in the reverse is clearly Jupiter, but of course the god in the obverse is usually described as "Apollo".
You need to add an Amelia 8 to your collection. Very significant coin.
My new hobby is going to cripple me these coins are better than porn
Complimenti! Davvero un bel video , monete molto belle. Un saluto dal mio canale 🎉
Couldn't the ploughing man be interpreted as Cincinnatus?
I have been wondering if there are any Cininnatus related coins.