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Denarius Fonteia: Publius Fonteius Capito, P•FONTEIVS•CAPITO•III•VIR•CONCORDIA / T•DIDI•IMP•VIL•PVB
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 55 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius of 16 Asses (141 – 27 BC) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Publius Fonteius Capito served as moneyer in 55 BC alongside two colleagues, one of whom — Titus Didius — is honored on this coin's reverse type by name and title. The abbreviation IMP on a moneyer's issue is unusual; it references Titus Didius's imperatorship earned during his Spanish campaigns of the late second century BC, a rare instance of a sitting moneyer commemorating a long-dead general to whom his family presumably owed political debt. VIL•PVB likely refers to the Villa Publica, the census building on the Campus Martius where Didius conducted troop levies.