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Aulus Allienus
Aulo Allienus


Gens: Alliena
Moneyer: Aulus Allienus
Date and mint: 47 BC - ?


Obverse: Bust of Venus, right, draped and diadem. Dotted border.
Legend: C CAESAR IMP COS ITER

Reverse: Trinacrus, left, placing the right foot in the bow and holding triskelions in the right hand and mantle in the left. Dotted border.
Legend: A ALLIENVS PRO COS

Comment: Aulus Allienus was legate of Q. Cicero in Asia in 60 BC and praetor in 49. He was later proconsul of Julius Caesar in Sicily

Provenance: Gemini LLC (2009)
Price: 33,642
457/1
457/1
Image courtesy of: Bertolami Fine Arts

Other references

Crawford: 457/1
DR: 643
BMCRR (Grueber): Sicilia 5
B (Babelon): Alliena 1 Julia 14
RSC (Seaby): Julio Cesar 1
FFC (Fdez., Fdez., Calicó): Julio Cesar 1
RC / RCV (D. Sear): 1401
CRI (Sear Imperators) 49 - 27 BC: 54
CRR (Sydenham): 1022
Cal (Calicó): 113
RBW: 1599
Other authors: Cohen 1

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