Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Umbria, Iguvium Æ As. Circa 280-240 BC. Solar disk with fourteen rays on raised disk / Crescent over I and Umbrian ethnic: ikuvins, all on raised disk. ICC 204; HN Italy23; Campana 1; Haeberlin p. 220, 1-8 pl. 78, 1-4. 190.85g, 72mm.
Extremely Fine; beautiful green-brown patina. Extremely Rare.
From a private German collection;
Privately purchased from V. C. Vecchi & Sons, London, 1979.
Iguvium, (Umbrian Ikuvium, modern Gubbio) was an important hill town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times on the upper Tiber which lost its importance after the construction of the Via Flaminia several miles to the east in 223 BC. It remained independent of Rome until the Social War and is most famous for the Tabulae Iguvinae, consisting of seven bronze tables found in 1444 near the city theatre. Mostly inscribed in the Umbrian alphabet of the 2nd century, they contain instructions for ceremonies of the Atiedan Brothers, a college of priests, and offer a wealth of information. References to money include the Umbrian words numer and nurpene (nummus, novus dupondius), and a(sses). The tablets are now kept in the Palazzo dei Consoli together with a representative collection of the city's cast coinage.
Extremely Fine; beautiful green-brown patina. Extremely Rare.
From a private German collection;
Privately purchased from V. C. Vecchi & Sons, London, 1979.
Iguvium, (Umbrian Ikuvium, modern Gubbio) was an important hill town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times on the upper Tiber which lost its importance after the construction of the Via Flaminia several miles to the east in 223 BC. It remained independent of Rome until the Social War and is most famous for the Tabulae Iguvinae, consisting of seven bronze tables found in 1444 near the city theatre. Mostly inscribed in the Umbrian alphabet of the 2nd century, they contain instructions for ceremonies of the Atiedan Brothers, a college of priests, and offer a wealth of information. References to money include the Umbrian words numer and nurpene (nummus, novus dupondius), and a(sses). The tablets are now kept in the Palazzo dei Consoli together with a representative collection of the city's cast coinage.