Crawford 341/1

Moneyer:  Quintus Titius, 90 BC

Denomination: Denarius

Obverse:  Bearded head of Mutinus Titinus right, wearing winged diadem, lock of hair falling down neck 

Reverse:  Pegasus springing right on tablet inscribed Q • TITI.

Mint: Rome

Reference: Crawford 341/1

Weight: 3,84 g

Notes: Mutinus Titinus (Mutunus Tutunus) was a Roman phallic deity, who was associated with the Greek Priapus (Varro Antiquitates rerum divinarum fr. 151a Cardauns). MT had a sanctuary in Rome in Veliis (Velia) where women offered sacrifices to him, clothed in the toga praetexta (Fest. 142,20-30; Paul. Fest. 143,10f. L.), supposedly since the founding of Rome, until the 1st century BC.  The shrine of Mutunus Tutunus on the Velia has not been located. According to Festus, it was destroyed to make a private bath for the pontifex and Augustan supporter Domitius Calvinus, even though it was revered as among the most ancient landmark. Unlike Priapus, who is depicted in human form with an outsized erection, Mutunus seems to have been embodied purely by the phallus, like the fascinus or the mysterious begetter of Servius Tullius. The god's name is related to two infrequently recorded slang words for penis in Latin, mūtō (or muttō) and mūtōnium.

Collection : 16 Roman Republic