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AE Quadrans (Rome, 132 BC)
O/ Head of Hercules right; three pellets behind.
R/ Prow right; M FABRI/NI above; three pellets before; ROMA below.
5.3g; 19mm
Crawford 251/3 (18 specimens in Paris)
- Rauch, Auction 87, lot 250.
- Bertolami Fine Arts, e-auction 49, lot 660.
Marcus Fabrinius:
This moneyer only minted bronzes and is completely unknown. No other magistrate bore this name and the gens Fabrinia is also never mentioned by ancient authors. However an inscription dated from the reign of Augustus mentions a Marcus Fabrinius M.f. in Umbria. Considering the rarity of this name, it might have been carved by descendants of our moneyer.
Cf. Paolo Ciuchini, "L'epigrafe funeraria del duoviro Marcus Fabrinius", in Epigraphica, LXVIII, 2006.
Collection : Roman Republic