Anonymous. Circa 225-212 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (22mm, 6.65 g, 5h). Rome mint. EF.

CNG Feature Auction 132
Lot: 707. Estimated: $ 3 000

Roman Republican, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 6 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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Anonymous. Circa 225-212 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (22mm, 6.65 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Janus, no annulets at top of head, curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt and holding scepter, in galloping quadriga driven right by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64a; HN Italy 334; RSC 23; RBW 65. Lovely old cabinet toning. EF. Fine style Janus portrait.

From the PLZ Collection. Ex Gasvoda Collection (Triton XXII, 8 January 2019), lot 780; Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2014), lot 34; Goldberg 72 (5 February 2013), lot 4116; Roma II (2 October 2011), lot 380; Hess-Divo 317 (27 October 2010), lot 417.

This, the first truly extensive Roman coinage in silver, began shortly before the outbreak of the Second Punic War and continued until it was superseded by the denarius reform of circa 211 BC. Some early Roman imperial texts refer to a coin called a “quadrigatus” that was used to make payments during the war against Hannibal; this is clearly the type that commenced circa 225 BC, bearing a youthful, laureate janiform head (likely representing the Dioscuri) on the obverse and a quadriga carrying Jupiter and Victory on the reverse. The issue was quite large and included a number of variant subtypes, indicating several mints were involved in the production. Later issues were struck on smaller flans in debased silver, no doubt due to wartime shortages. The splendid example offered here is one of the early varieties, struck in sound silver from dies of good style.

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