Saufeia



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     SAUFEIA, a plebeian moneyer ; there are five
varieties of its coins ; one denarius bears the
head of Pallas ; and Victory in a biga, galloping,
inscribed L. SAVF. and, below, the type
ROMA. "This Lucius Saufeius (says Vaillant)
may be he who was the familiar friend of Cicero
and of Atticus, and who was Quæstor Urbanus
in the year 58 B.C., when the above described
medal was struck." -- The brass pieces belonging
to this moneyer are the as or parts of the as.


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