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PALIKANVS (Lollius Palikanus)
Rome, 45 BC
Obverse: Head of Libertas with pearl diadem, behind LIBERTATIS
Revers: View of the rostra in the Roman Forum, ornamented with ships' beaks and surmounted by tribune's bench, PALIKANUS above
3,98 Gramm
The subsellium on the speaker's platform is the place from which the tribunes of the plebs spoke to the people. M. Lollius Palikanus the father of the moneyer, had fought in 71 BC for the abolition of the restrictions on the tribunes imposed by Sulla.
Die estimation by Crawford: Obverse <30, Reverse <33
Sear 465, Crawford 473/1, Albert 1460
ex Heritage 2024, ex Roma Auction XXII, 07.10.21, Lot 619, ex Fritz Rudolf Künker, Auction 341, Lot 5636, 01.10.20, ex Collection of a Hanseatic Romanophile, Privately purchased in 2002 from Münzgalerie Dieter Grunow, Berlin.
https://www.kuenker.de/muenzen-der-roemischen-republik-ar-denar-45-v.-chr.-rom/377495
Collection : Roman Republic + Imperatorial