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Triskeles Sale 28  21 Jun 2019
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Lot 237

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 130 USD
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Mn. Fonteius C.f. 85 B.C. AR denarius (20 mm, 4.09 g, 12 h). Rome. (MN) FO(NT)EI behind, [C · F] below chin, laureate head of Vejovis right; below, thunderbolt / Infant Genius seated on goat right; above, pilei of the Dioscuri; in exergue, filleted thyrsus; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 353/1c; Sydenham 724a; Fonteia 10. Lightly toned. Extremely fine.

The moneyer is perhaps the brother of the moneyer M. Fonteius (see Crawford 347) and not inconceivably the tribune featured on the reverse of Crawford 429/1. The reverse recalls that the god Jupiter was suckled by the she-goat Amaltheia on Mt. Ida during his infancy, and depicts a statue that was within the Temple of Vejovis in Rome.

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