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Contributor:
Teresa Darling. |
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Issuer: |
CRISPUS, Caesar AD 317-326. AE3. Struck AD 318. |
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Obverse: |
CRISPVS NOB CAES, his laureated, draped and cuirassed bust facing right. |
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Reverse: |
PRINCIPIA IVVENTVTIS, Mars nude except for boots, helmet, and chlamys across left shoulder, standing left, holding scepter and leaning on shield; P in right field; in exergue Q, star in crescent upward, A. |
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Reference: |
RIC VII 163 Arles; Sear 3921. Grade: aU. |
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Comments: |
For more information, read the "Crispus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Crispus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. |