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Electronic Auction 561  1 May 2024
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Lot 545

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 130 USD
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Man. Aemilius Lepidus. 114-113 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.87 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Roma right; mark of value to left / Equestrian statue right on three arches. Crawford 291/1; Sydenham 554; Aemilia 7; RBW 1124. Lightly toned, minor marks and scratches, clashed die on reverse. VF.

The three arches on the reverse likely represent an aqueduct began by M. Aemilius Lepidus and his fellow Censor, M. Fulvius Nobilior in 179 BC. The aqueduct carried water across the Via Praenestina, from the Anio river, in the eastern part of Rome.
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