Mint and Date: Rome, 87 BCE.
Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.92g
Obverse: Diademed head of Venus right, control numeral behind, name below.
XXXVIII C.NORBANVS
Reverse: Ear of barley, fascis and caduceus.
(no legend)
Provenance: Freeman & Sear (Vauctions), July 2005
Ref: RCV (2000) 278; Crawford 357/1b.
BW Ref: 014 024 030
Note: Notes by Seaby: "The reverse type is probably an allusion to the moneyer's father and the part he played in Sicily during the Social War, when he raised troops, organized a fleet, and provisioned the town of Rhegium. It must have been a very large issue as the numbers on type 2 run from I to over CCXX."