RPC I, 661

 

Image of specimen #26

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 661
Province Sicily
Region Sicily
City Henna
Reign Roman Republic
Magistrate Marcus Cestius (duovir) ; Lucius Munatius (duovir)
Dating 44/36 BC
Obverse inscription L MVNATIVS M CESTIVS
Obverse design veiled head of Ceres with corn ears, left; behind, torch
Reverse inscription MVN HENNAE
Reverse design Pluto and Proserpina in quadriga, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Axis 12
Reference Holm 760, BMC 9, Gabrici 8, Cop 235, FITA 190
Specimens 27 (9 in the core collections)
Note For two halved examples, see Cammarata, op.cit., pl. V, a-b. -- A date early in the second century BC has been suggested by M. Caccamo Caltabiano, ‘La cronologia del Municipium di Henna: discordanza tra il dato numismatico e quello storiografico,’ in Hestiasis. Studi di tarda antichità offerti a S. Calderone (Messina, 1986), pp. 1-27.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 9
2 2     L BMC 10
3 3     Cop SNG 235
4 4     P: 403
5 5     O
6 6     B: I-B
7 7     B: 10646
8 8     B: Löbb.
9 9     C: 85-1948
10 10     Palermo = Gabrici 8
11 11     Palermo = Gabrici 9
12 12     Palermo = Gabrici 10
13 13     Palermo = Gabrici 11
14 14     Milan: Arslan 285
15 15     Virzi 943
16 16     Virzi 944
17 17     Mini 11
18 18     Evelpidis 481
19 19     Cefalu = Tropea, Archivio Storico Messinese §1901, no. 2
20 20     Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 7 (1987) lot 492
21 21     Calaciati 12
22 22     Calaciati 12
23 23     Cammarata = see Calciati
24 24     Leu 1973, lot 106
25 25     Winterthur GrMW 626
26 26     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 215, 13 Oct. 2013, lot 945
27 27     CGT coll. = JHE Auction 20, 8 April 2014, lot 45