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Denarius N. Fabius Pictor, N•FABI PICTOR ROMA
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 126 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | X |
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| Mintage | ND (-126) - RRC 268/1a - without control letter - ND (-126) - RRC 268/1b - control letter on obverse and reverse - |
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Quintus Fabius Pictor, the early Roman annalist often credited as Rome's first historian, wrote in Greek — a deliberate choice that signals how aggressively the Roman aristocracy was projecting itself into the Hellenistic world during the late 3rd century BC. This coin was struck by a descendant bearing the same family name, almost certainly to invoke that ancestral prestige at a moment when the Fabia gens was competing for political visibility in an increasingly crowded senatorial field.
The moneyer is identified in sources as Numerius Fabius Pictor, making this one of the few Republican issues where the praenomen N. is confirmed rather than inferred from the die legend alone.