6-1084

RIC VI, OSTIA [after 64], ROMULUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER

  

OBVERSE

DIVOROMV-LONVBISC [DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS C]; head r., bare.

REVERSE

VOT/QQ/MVL/X in four lines in wreath.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER. Romulus' coin with rev. similar to ROMA 281a which in fact was also minted in Ostia but is attested in RIC only for Maxentius. See CORRIGENDA, VOL. VI, p. 385. Listed in Drost (p. 340, no. 95). Coin should be listed in RIC after OSTIA 64.

NOTES

Fraction. Weight 1.73 g. From Drost (plate 56, no. 95/1).

Other specimens:

- from Sternberg auction 12 (lot 831), November 1982; weight 1.68 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski