DR-496 | Crawford: 405/1b
Marcus Plaetorius Cestianus
Marcus Plaetorius Cestianus
Gens: Plaetoria
Moneyer: Marcus Plaetorius Cestianus
Date and mint: 69 BC - Rome
Obverse: Female bust, left, draped and with winged headband. Dotted border.
Legend:
Symbols: Obverse behind, control mark
Reverse: Temple pediment; inside the pediment, figure of an anguipeda with cornucopia; on moneyerer's entablature, preenomen and nomen (varied forms). Line border.
Legend: CEST S C
Comment: Babelon identified the bust on the obverse as that of Fortuna and the temple on the reverse as that of Preneste where Fortuna Publica Primigenia was honored.
Provenance: Numismatica Ars Classica (2016)
Price: 13,502 €
Other references
| Crawford: | 405/1b |
| DR: | 496 |
| BMCRR (Grueber): | Roma 3519 a 3521, 3523 |
| B (Babelon): | Plaetoria 9 |
| RSC (Seaby): | Plaetoria 9-9e |
| FFC (Fdez., Fdez., Calicó): | 984 a 989 |
| RC / RCV (D. Sear): | 340 |
| CRI (Sear Imperators) 49 - 27 BC: | |
| CRR (Sydenham): | 799, 800-800b |
| Cal (Calicó): | 1115 a 1120 |
| RBW: | |
| Other authors: |
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