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Created

When	491-537 CE
Where	Rome

Owned

Who	Heinrich Wefels (-1931)
When	1917-1931

Relation to places

Italy

Keywords

40 Nummi (Follis) Animal Bronze Coin Early Middle Ages Early Middle Ages Middle Ages Myth Personification

Description

Front: Behelmtes Romabrustbild nach r.
Rear: Wölfin, die Zwillinge Romulus und Remus säugend. Darüber Christogramm zwischen zwei Sternen. Im Abschnitt XX.

Inscription

Vorderseite: INVIC-TA ROMA

Material/Technique

Bronze; struck

Measurements

Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 9.37 g

Literature

M. Metlich, The coinage of Ostrogothic Italy (2004) Nr. 82 a (Rom, Athalarich). W. Wroth, Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards ... in the British Museum (1911) 150 Nr. 32 (494(?)-534 n. Chr.).
P. Grierson - M. Blackburn, Medieval European Coinage I (1986) Nr. 93 (senatorische Prägung, ca. 490-536/37n. Chr.).