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HISTORICAL ROMAN COINS
Rev. Jupiter standing, holding eagle and thunder-
bolt ; at his feet, altar ; in field 1., star
and Q.
Silver denarius. 3'75 grammes (57’8 grains). British Museum.
62. Obv. Winged Gorgon’s head in the middle of the
three-legged symbol (triskeles) of Sicily ;
between the legs, ears of barley.
Rev. Jupiter standing, holding eagle and thunder-
bolt ; in field r., pruning-hook ; on r. and
1.: LENT.MAR.COS (NT and MAR
ligatured).
Silver denarius. 4’12 grammes (63'6 grains). British Museum.
L. Lentulus Crus and C. Claudius Marcellus were
chosen consuls for the year 49 b.c. Both, more espe-
cially Lentulus, were declared enemies of Caesar, and
fled hastily at his approach to Rome. Early in
March they were sent forward by Pompeius to Epirus.
During the time of Caesar’s Spanish expedition,
Lentulus seems to have been occupied in raising
troops in the East, but he returned in time for the
fighting in Epirus. Of Marcellus we hardly hear
again; in 48 b.c. he was, with Coponius, in command
of the Rhodian squadron.
Of the two coins bearing the names of the consuls,
the first was issued by a quaestor (hence the letter
q on the reverse), either at the Pompeian head-
quarters, Dyrrhachium, or else at Apollonia. The
latter mint is perhaps the more probable, since in the
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Rev. Jupiter standing, holding eagle and thunder-
bolt ; at his feet, altar ; in field 1., star
and Q.
Silver denarius. 3'75 grammes (57’8 grains). British Museum.
62. Obv. Winged Gorgon’s head in the middle of the
three-legged symbol (triskeles) of Sicily ;
between the legs, ears of barley.
Rev. Jupiter standing, holding eagle and thunder-
bolt ; in field r., pruning-hook ; on r. and
1.: LENT.MAR.COS (NT and MAR
ligatured).
Silver denarius. 4’12 grammes (63'6 grains). British Museum.
L. Lentulus Crus and C. Claudius Marcellus were
chosen consuls for the year 49 b.c. Both, more espe-
cially Lentulus, were declared enemies of Caesar, and
fled hastily at his approach to Rome. Early in
March they were sent forward by Pompeius to Epirus.
During the time of Caesar’s Spanish expedition,
Lentulus seems to have been occupied in raising
troops in the East, but he returned in time for the
fighting in Epirus. Of Marcellus we hardly hear
again; in 48 b.c. he was, with Coponius, in command
of the Rhodian squadron.
Of the two coins bearing the names of the consuls,
the first was issued by a quaestor (hence the letter
q on the reverse), either at the Pompeian head-
quarters, Dyrrhachium, or else at Apollonia. The
latter mint is perhaps the more probable, since in the
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