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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
405/1b
405/1b
Image courtesy of: Numismatica Ars Classica

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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