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Augustus AR Denarius. M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Rome, 17 BC. M SANQVINIVS III VIR, youthful laureate head of the deified Julius Caesar right, above, a comet with four rays and a tail / AVGVST DIVI F LVDOS SAE, herald or ludius standing left, wearing long robe reaching to ankles and helmet with two long feathers, and holding winged caduceus upright in right hand and round shield, ornamented with six-pointed star. RIC 340; BMCRE 70; RSC (Julius Caesar) 6; BN 273-4; FFC 4 (this coin). 3.68g, 20mm, 6h.
Fleur De Coin. Rare; one of the finest and most complete examples known.
This coin published in Fernández, Fernández & Calicó, Catálogo Monográfico de los Denarios de la República Romana (Madrid, 2002);
From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex Alba Longa Collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 15, 18 May 1999, lot 259.
The gens Sanquinia was a minor plebeian family, possibly of Etruscan origins (Syme, Prefects of the City, Vespasian to Trajan, Roman Papers, vol. V, p. 619 note 63) that rose from obscurity in the reign of Augustus to attain the highest offices of state. Quintus Sanquinius Q. f. Q. n., the moneyer responsible for this pseudo-Republican denarius that celebrates the holding of the Secular Games, was likely the son of the Quintus Sanquinius Q. f. who was quaestor, tribune of the plebs, praetor, and proconsul towards the end of the Republic and in the early years of Augustus' reign. He was probably also the uncle of the Quintus Sanquinius M. f. Q. n. Maximus who held the consulship under Tiberius and Caligula. There appears to have been only one branch of this family, since all mentions of it occur in only this one brief period, after which, in the time of Claudius, it vanishes from history.
Fleur De Coin. Rare; one of the finest and most complete examples known.
This coin published in Fernández, Fernández & Calicó, Catálogo Monográfico de los Denarios de la República Romana (Madrid, 2002);
From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex Alba Longa Collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 15, 18 May 1999, lot 259.
The gens Sanquinia was a minor plebeian family, possibly of Etruscan origins (Syme, Prefects of the City, Vespasian to Trajan, Roman Papers, vol. V, p. 619 note 63) that rose from obscurity in the reign of Augustus to attain the highest offices of state. Quintus Sanquinius Q. f. Q. n., the moneyer responsible for this pseudo-Republican denarius that celebrates the holding of the Secular Games, was likely the son of the Quintus Sanquinius Q. f. who was quaestor, tribune of the plebs, praetor, and proconsul towards the end of the Republic and in the early years of Augustus' reign. He was probably also the uncle of the Quintus Sanquinius M. f. Q. n. Maximus who held the consulship under Tiberius and Caligula. There appears to have been only one branch of this family, since all mentions of it occur in only this one brief period, after which, in the time of Claudius, it vanishes from history.