Coin: ar denarius
- Museum number:
- 8-5623
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080005623
- Accession number:
- Acc.908
- Description:
- Silver Denarius. 3.68 grams. 20 mm. Forgery. Obverse: Head of Roma facing right; on left, X. Reverse: Dioscuri riding facing right; in exergue, ROMA.
- Donor:
- Mary W. Knight
- Collection place:
- Rome (modern city), Lazio, Central Italy
- Production place:
- Rome (ancient city)
- Culture or time period:
- Late Roman Republic (242-49 BC)
- Collector:
- H. M. Holbrook
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Silver (metal)
- Person depicted:
- Castor and Pollux (Greek and Roman deities) and Roma (Roman diety)
- Inscription:
- ROMA
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money) and Denarii
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers and 7.6 Bogus Currency
- Production date:
- 187 BC
- Accession date:
- 1947
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Legacy documentation:
-