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Quinarius Calpurnia: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, L PISO FRVGI
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 90 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Winged Victory, draped, standing to right, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm branch in her left; on certain sub-types, a sword and spear replace the standard attributes. The moneyer's name and additional control numerals or symbols appear in the left and right fields and in the exergue, providing the principal inscription for this denomination. |
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Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi issued this quinarius in 90 BC under extraordinary circumstances — the Social War had just erupted, and Rome's Italian allies were in open revolt. The sudden demand for military pay drove an unprecedented expansion of the mint's output, with Piso Frugi producing one of the largest and most varied coinage runs of the entire Republican period. The series is notorious among specialists for its sheer number of control marks and die combinations, used to track batches through what was essentially a wartime emergency production.
RRC 340/2 represents the quinarius fraction of that broader issue, struck alongside a far more voluminous denarius run. The quinarius denomination had fallen largely out of use for decades before this moment.