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Denarius Porcia: C. Porcius Cato, C•CATO
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 123 BC |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | C•CATO ROMA |
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| Mintage | ND (-123) |
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C. Porcius Cato, moneyer for this issue, was likely a grandson of Cato the Censor — the famously austere senator whose relentless campaigns against Carthage ended with the city's destruction in 146 BC. The family name carried enormous political weight by 123 BC, the same year Gaius Gracchus began his tribunate and the Roman constitution was lurching toward the crises that would consume the next century. Whether the moneyer leveraged his lineage deliberately is unknowable, but the timing places this coin squarely inside one of the most politically charged years of the late Republic.