Didrachm Quadrigatus
Roman Republic
225-212 BCE
Silver
Weight: 6.4 g
Diameter: 7/8 in. (22.7 mm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the John M. McDonald 1940 Fund
993.15.29091
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Laureate head of Janus; border of dots Reverse: Jupiter with sceptre in left hand and thunder bolt in right, stands in a quadriga driven by Victory; below ROMA incuse in raised trapezoidal frame; line border
Course History
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
LAT 15, Literature of Rome, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
From Art to Artifact: Making Sense of Roman Coins, Roman Numismatics Senior Seminar, Spring 2009, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June13, 2009.
Publication History
Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 76th Buy or Bid Sale Catalogue, Lot 270.
Provenance
Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; sold to present collection, 1993.
Catalogue Raisonne
Crawford 29/3; Sydenham 1952: p. 6, no. 65, pl. 13
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