Geto-Dacian(?) Hybrid Imitation of Republican AR Denarius. Imitating the types of C. Naevius Balbus(?) and P. Maenius Antiaticus M. f.(?), after circa 79 BC. Diademed bust of Venus to right; SC behind, X above / Victory driving quadriga to right, holding reins, palm branch and wreath; uncertain letters below, blundered ROMA in exergue. For possible obv. prototype, cf. Crawford 382/1a-b; for rev. prototype, cf. Crawford 249/1; cf. Davis, 'Dacian and Celtic Imitations of Republican Denarii' in The Celator Vol. 18, No. 4 (April, 2004), Class A Group III (Geto-Dacian Hybrids). 3.64g, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private UK collection.