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République romaine - L. Livineius Regulus
Denier - Rome (42).
Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la vente Leu 86 du 5 mai 2003, N° 720 et de la vente NGSA 4 du 11 décembre 2006, N° 136 et de la vente NAC 51 du 5 mars 2009, N° 103.
3.97g - Cr. 494/28 - Sear Imperators 177
Superbe – AU
" Lucius Livineius Regulus, like his colleague L. Mussidius Longus, is not known to us from history, and our information about him is derived only from his coins, which tell us that he was the son of Lucius Livineius Regulus, the praetor, who, with his brother Marcus, was a friend of Cicero, and who appeared to have served under Caesar in the African war, BC 46" (H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. I, London 1910, pp. 578-579), but some think that the moneyer is the same as the praetor named in the Bellum Africum LXXXIX. Buttrey suggested that - amongst the college of four moneyers, Clodius, Mussidius, Varus and Regulus - Regulus was the primus (leading member), and that he was serving as the praefect of the city of Rome in 42 BC – in charge notably of controlling the coinage in the absence of the consuls (see T. V. Buttrey, The Triumviral Portrait Gold of the Quattuorviri Monetales of 42 B.C., New York 1956, pp. 38-44). Interestingly, this coin type is not directly related to either of the triumvirs, contrary to Regulus' types of Aeneas carrying Anchises (Octavian claimed descent from Venus), of the Vestal Virgin Aemilia (Lepidus counted Mars among his ancestors), or of Hercules (Antony).
Denier - Rome (42).
Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la vente Leu 86 du 5 mai 2003, N° 720 et de la vente NGSA 4 du 11 décembre 2006, N° 136 et de la vente NAC 51 du 5 mars 2009, N° 103.
3.97g - Cr. 494/28 - Sear Imperators 177
Superbe – AU
" Lucius Livineius Regulus, like his colleague L. Mussidius Longus, is not known to us from history, and our information about him is derived only from his coins, which tell us that he was the son of Lucius Livineius Regulus, the praetor, who, with his brother Marcus, was a friend of Cicero, and who appeared to have served under Caesar in the African war, BC 46" (H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. I, London 1910, pp. 578-579), but some think that the moneyer is the same as the praetor named in the Bellum Africum LXXXIX. Buttrey suggested that - amongst the college of four moneyers, Clodius, Mussidius, Varus and Regulus - Regulus was the primus (leading member), and that he was serving as the praefect of the city of Rome in 42 BC – in charge notably of controlling the coinage in the absence of the consuls (see T. V. Buttrey, The Triumviral Portrait Gold of the Quattuorviri Monetales of 42 B.C., New York 1956, pp. 38-44). Interestingly, this coin type is not directly related to either of the triumvirs, contrary to Regulus' types of Aeneas carrying Anchises (Octavian claimed descent from Venus), of the Vestal Virgin Aemilia (Lepidus counted Mars among his ancestors), or of Hercules (Antony).