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Auction: 11023 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 614

P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (c.50 BC), AR Denarius, bare head of M. Claudius Marcellus (consul 222 BC) right, triskeles behind, marcellinvs, rev. M. Claudius Marcellus, togate, carrying trophy into tetrastyle temple of Jupiter Feretrius, marcellvs cos qvinc (Cr. 439/1; Syd. 1147), good very fine Estimate £ 450-500 The moneyer recalls the exploits of his illustrious ancestor, who was consul five times, captured Syracuse in 211BC (hence the triskeles on the obverse), and dedicated the spoils he took from the Gaulish chieftain Britomartus, who he had slain with his own hands, in the pictured temple in 222BC

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