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an obverse brockage silver Roman Republican denarius of Mn. Cordius Rufus showing the Dioscuri Coin Type: Obverse brockage silver denarius of Mn. Cordius Rufus, Roman Republic, 46 BCE.
Mint and Date: Rome, 46 BCE.
Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.26g.
Obverse: (RVFVS III VIR) Conjoined heads of the Dioscuri right, wearing laureate pilei surmounted by stars.
Reverse: Reversed incuse of the obverse.
Provenance: budgies-beak (eBay), November 2010.
Ref: RCV (2000) 440; RSC Cordia 2a.
BW Ref: 066 051 165
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