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As semiuncial - Anonymous ROMA
| Issuer | Roman Republic Mint |
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| Year | 91 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius of 16 Asses (141 – 27 BC) |
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| Reverse description | Prow of a Roman war galley facing right, rendered in profile with multiple oar-banks depicted by horizontal striations along the hull, a projecting rostrum at the waterline, and a forecastle or superstructure rising at the bow. The legend ROMA appears in the lower exergual area beneath the prow, inscribed in bold Latin capitals. The overall design follows the well-established Republican aes grave prow-series tradition, here executed in the reduced semiuncial weight standard. |
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| Mint | Rome Mint |
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Struck in 91 BC, the year the Social War began — the most existential internal conflict Rome faced before the civil wars of the late Republic. Italian allies who had fought under Roman standards for generations rose in open revolt over the denial of citizenship, and the financial strain on the Roman treasury was immediate. Bronze coinage of this period reflects that pressure directly: the semuncial standard had already been reducing bronze weights for decades, and by this point the as had shed the better part of its original value through successive legal reductions dating back to the Hannibalic War.