Anonymous
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AV 60 asses 3.3529 gm, 14.7 mm
Italy post 211 BC
1. Thomsen, Rudi. 1974. Early Roman Coinage. Volume I. Page 94 #162. Copenhagen: H. P. Hansens Bogtrykkeri A/S. 2. Crawford, Michael H. 1974. Roman Republican Coinage. Page 154 #42/2 and Plate IX #44/2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3. Crawford, Michael H. 1985. Coinage and Money Under the Roman Republic. Page 34. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 4.Mattingly, Harold. 1927. Roman Coins from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Page 15, Plate 2 #8. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Obverse
Head of Mars, facing right, bearded, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet; at truncation LX.
Reverse
Eagle with spread wings standing on a thunderbolt.
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