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Denarius Vibia: C. Vibius Varus, C•VIBIVS VARVS
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 42 BC |
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| Weight | 3.89 g |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Ceres facing left, rendered in three-quarter view, holding a long torch in her extended right hand and a sheaf of grain (or cornucopia) in her left arm. The goddess is depicted draped in a long garment with her hair loosely arranged. The moneyer's legend C•VIBIVS VARVS is inscribed in the field, divided on either side of the central figure, reading right to left on the left and top to bottom on the right within the beaded border. The composition reflects the late Republican artistic convention of combining divine imagery with the moneyer's full name as a declaration of authority. |
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| Reverse lettering | C•VIBIVS VARVS |
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C. Vibius Varus is otherwise unknown to history beyond this coinage — no literary source names him, no inscription survives. He was one of the moneyers of 42 BC, the year the Second Triumvirate pushed through the posthumous deification of Julius Caesar, and Roman coin production was increasingly pulled into the gravitational field of competing warlords. Whether Varus had any personal allegiance in those wars is unrecorded. The RRC 494 series to which this denarius belongs was struck at Rome while Antony and Octavian were consolidating power ahead of Philippi.