Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 44 20 Apr 2018
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L. Plautius Plancus, Denarius, Rome, 47 BC; AR (g 3,83; mm 18; h 8); Head of Medusa facing; below, L PLAVTIVS, Rv. Victory facing, holding palm branch and leading four horses; below, [PLANCVS]. Crawford 453/1c-d; Plautia 14; Sydenham 959b.
Superb iridescent tone, well centered and virtually as struck.
About this issue see Pliny (Nat. Hist. XXXV, 108): "(..) Nicomachus, the son and disciple of Aristiæus. He painted a Rape of Proserpina, a picture that was formerly in the Temple of Minerva in the Capitol, above the shrine of Juventas. Another picture of his was to be seen also in the Capitol, placed there by the imperator Plancus, a Victory soaring aloft a quadriga".
(2000 GBP)
Superb iridescent tone, well centered and virtually as struck.
About this issue see Pliny (Nat. Hist. XXXV, 108): "(..) Nicomachus, the son and disciple of Aristiæus. He painted a Rape of Proserpina, a picture that was formerly in the Temple of Minerva in the Capitol, above the shrine of Juventas. Another picture of his was to be seen also in the Capitol, placed there by the imperator Plancus, a Victory soaring aloft a quadriga".
(2000 GBP)