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Denarius Aemilia: Manlius Æmilius Lepidus
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 114 BC - 113 BC |
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| Weight | 3.72 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and laureate female bust, draped, facing right, generally identified as Roma. The effigy is rendered in the late Republican style with careful attention to the drapery folds. A border of dots frames the entire design. The legend ROMA appears in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMA |
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Minted by Manlius Aemilius Lepidus in the years immediately following Rome's catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Noreia, where the Cimbri annihilated a consular army under Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, this issue reflects a Republic under acute military pressure on its northern frontiers. The moneyer's choice of ancestry for the coin's imagery was deliberate self-promotion — the Aemilii Lepidi were among Rome's most politically aggressive families, and the moneyer's position guaranteed a degree of propagandistic latitude.
RRC 291/1 is catalogued as a single-type issue within a tight production window, consistent with the annual moneyer rotation system of the late Republic.