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Denarius Tituria: Lucius Titurius Sabinus, SABIN / L•TITVRI
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 89 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius of 16 Asses (141 – 27 BC) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two Roman soldiers stand facing one another, each carrying a Sabine woman in his arms, depicting the mythological Rape of the Sabine Women — a scene directly alluding to the moneyer's gens and its claimed Sabine origins. The figures are rendered in vigorous relief with detailed military dress, conveying narrative drama uncommon in Republican coinage. The composition is symmetrical, with the two groups balanced across the central field. The moneyer's name L•TITVRI appears in the exergue below the ground line, identifying the issuing magistrate Lucius Titurius Sabinus. The scene is presented without a border, on the characteristically irregular flan typical of late Roman Republican silver coinage struck circa 89 BC. |
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Lucius Titurius Sabinus served as moneyer around 89 BC, during one of the most violent stretches of the late Republic — the Social War, in which Rome's Italian allies revolted after being denied citizenship. The Sabine connection is deliberate: the gens Tituria claimed descent from the Sabine king Titus Tatius, and the moneyer exploited that lineage as pointed political commentary at precisely the moment Rome was fighting, and then rapidly enfranchising, its Italian neighbors.
RRC 344/1 is one of several related issues from Sabinus, all leaning hard on the same ancestral mythology. The Social War ended with the lex Julia and lex Plautia Papiria extending citizenship — rendering the propaganda both timely and almost immediately obsolete.