Obverse: Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat-skin headdress. Reverse: Bull charging right with G above.

Juno Sospita, the "Saviour" goddess whose principal cult was at Lanuvium, alludes to the moneyer's hometown and was a frequent emblem on the coinage of magistrates of Lanuvine origin.

The charging bull is a stock symbol of force and fertility on Republican coinage, here paired with a control letter used to distinguish dies within the issue.

Reverse legend: G is not a word but a single control letter, one of a sequence of marks used by the mint to track the dies employed in this large issue.

Iridescent toning, slight porosity, minor marks

Deep iridescent toning with deposits, numerous scratches, roughness on reverse, slight wave in flan

Toned with scratches visible under the tone.

Toned with some iridescence, scratch, minor marks

Attractive light golden and iridescent toning, trace porosity, minor scratches and marks

Lightly toned with iridescence, light scratches, scrape on obverse

Toned with some iridescence, underlying luster, a few light scratches and marks, flan flaws on reverse. Well centered.

Toned with slight porosity, minor deposits, and flan flaws.

Iridescent tone, small scratch on obverse, die flaw on reverse

Bright surfaces, bankers' marks on obverse, light scratches, hairlines

Lustrous surface with scratches on obverse.

Lightly toned with some iridescence, a few minor marks under tone.

Toned with slight clashing on reverse, light scratch on reverse under tone, deposits

Lightly toned with some minor die rust, a few scratches, and hairlines.

Deep and iridescent toning, flan flaw, a few scratches

Lightly toned with minor deposits and marks, struck on an oval flan.

Lightly toned, obverse struck slightly off center, a few minor marks, some weakness

Toned with minor scratches and marks, some deposits.

Lightly toned with light iridescence, slightly off center obverse

Lightly toned with a few scratches on reverse.

Light iridescent toning, minor marks, small metal flaws

Lightly toned with light old scratch on reverse and some deposits

Attractive find patina, redeposited silver on the reverse, stress cracks and metal flaws

Toned with iridescence around the devices.

Iridescent toning, a few light scratches, obverse metal flaw

Attractive iridescent toning, rotated double strike on reverse

Toned with minor deposits in the devices and a few light marks.

Darkly toned with find patina, a few shallow scratches under tone, edge test cut

A hint of toning, some light scratches and marks, minor porosity, obverse die flaw.

Lightly toned with a few scratches and marks.

Lightly toned with several bankers' marks on the obverse and light scratches and marks.

Lovely iridescent toning, minor reverse metal flaw

Iridescent toning with small spot of find patina on the obverse, a few light scratches and marks.

Iridescent tone with a couple light marks beneath toning

Toned with a hint of iridescence, double struck on the obverse, glue residue on the reverse.

Attractive cabinet toning with iridescence

Lightly toned with faint hairline scratches


3/19/25	$120	VF	CNG	▼ −31%
2/19/25	$150	VF	CNG	▼ −14%
12/18/24	$250	VF	CNG	▲ +44%
11/6/24	$150	VF	CNG	▼ −14%
9/11/24	$225	VF	CNG	▲ +30%

Denarius of L. Thorius BalbusCrawford 316/1

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