215/1. Marcia (148 BC)

AR Denarius (Rome, 148 BC)

O/ Helmeted head of Roma right; LIBO downwards behind; X below chin.

R/ The Dioscuri galloping right; Q MARC below; ROMA in exergue.

3.72g; 20mm

Crawford 215/1 (75 obverse dies/94 reverse dies)

- Naville Numismatics Live Auction 38, lot 478.

Quintus Marcius Libo:

Libo belonged to a minor stirps of the great plebeian gens Marcia, but his life is completely unknown.  Besides, only two Marcii Libones are known, the other being a praefectus fabrum in 66 BC (Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, I, 2, 7).

Collection : Roman Republic