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Denarius Licinia: P. Licinius Nerva, P•NERVA
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 113 BC - 112 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A scene depicting Roman citizens exercising their voting rights on the comitium, rendered in three figures across the field. At lower center, an attendant (rogator) passes a voting tablet (tabella) up to a citizen on a raised platform, while a second citizen to the right deposits his ballot into a wicker voting basket (cista). The composition is a rare and historically significant depiction of the Roman electoral process, likely referencing legislation associated with the moneyer. The moneyer's name P•NERVA appears in the exergue or field in Latin letters. |
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| Reverse lettering | P•NERVA |
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P. Licinius Nerva served as one of three commissioners appointed to oversee Rome's voting assemblies, and this issue almost certainly commemorates that office — the tresviri capitales or a related supervisory role tied to electoral procedure. The gens Licinia was one of the most politically active families of the middle Republic, and coinage was a standard vehicle for advertising both the moneyer's lineage and his current magistracy. This particular issue is relatively scarce, with RRC placing it firmly in the narrow two-year window preceding the Social War pressures that would reshape Roman silver coinage entirely.