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- Obverse: Helmeted bust of Mars, right, bowl decorated with plume. Behind, VITELIÚ (Italia in Oscan).
- Reverse: Oath-taking scene: four soldiers, two on each side, pointing their swords at pig held by kneeling youth; in the background, standard. in exergue, C. PAAPII. C retrograde in Oscan characters.
- Type: Denar
- State: Good EF
- Weight: 3,65 gr.
- Date: 90 BC
- Mint: Bovianum
- Diameter: 19,20 mm.
- Die axis: 6 hs
- Campana: 83s
- Other Ref: Syd. 637. SNG Lockett 59 (this coin). Historia Numorum Italy 425. Cal. 1422. Campana 83s (this coin).
- Source: NAC 61. Lot 1218
- Comments:
Ex Naville V, 1923, British Museum duplicates 125; Glendining’s 25 October 1957, Lockett, 45; and Sotheby’s 8 October 1992, 1160 sales.