AD FRV EMV EX S CAd frumentum emundun ex senatus consulto - to purchase grain, in obediance to a decree of the Senate.
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AD FRV EMV EX S C Two men habited in the toga and seated; on either side of them, an ear of corn. This denarius of the Calpurnia gens informs us, that Piso and Servilius Caepio were sent as Quaestors, ad frumentum emundun ex senatus consulto (to purchase corn, in obediance to a decree of the Senate). But in what year the event happened, and when the money was struck, are points apparently unascertained. A similar reverse is exhibited on silver coins of Critonius and of Fannius, aediles of the people. The bearded head on the obverse, Eckhel (v. p 159), considers to be in all probability that of Saturn; not only from the scythe placed near it, but also because, according to Plutarch, Saturn was regarded by the Romans as the deity presiding over Agriculture, and the productions of the earth; and in this view the obverse and reverse tally admirably. Saturn, armed with a similar instrument, may be seen on coins of the Memmia and Sentia families; but the most undoubted type of Saturn occurs on coins of the Neria gens.
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AD FRV EMV EX S CAd frumentum emundun ex senatus consulto - to purchase grain, in obediance to a decree of the Senate.
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AD FRV EMV EX S C Two men habited in the toga and seated; on either side of them, an ear of corn. This denarius of the Calpurnia gens informs us, that Piso and Servilius Caepio were sent as Quaestors, ad frumentum emundun ex senatus consulto (to purchase corn, in obediance to a decree of the Senate). But in what year the event happened, and when the money was struck, are points apparently unascertained. A similar reverse is exhibited on silver coins of Critonius and of Fannius, aediles of the people. The bearded head on the obverse, Eckhel (v. p 159), considers to be in all probability that of Saturn; not only from the scythe placed near it, but also because, according to Plutarch, Saturn was regarded by the Romans as the deity presiding over Agriculture, and the productions of the earth; and in this view the obverse and reverse tally admirably. Saturn, armed with a similar instrument, may be seen on coins of the Memmia and Sentia families; but the most undoubted type of Saturn occurs on coins of the Neria gens.
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