C. CALPURNIUS PISO FRUGI SILVER DENARIUS – EX OPERA LOVER’S COLLECTION – XF IRRIDESCENT ROMAN REPUBLICAN COIN (Inv. 20848)

$1,250.00

20865. ROMAN REPUBLIC. C. CALPURNIUS PISO FRUGI, c. 67 or 61 BC.
Silver denarius, 3.94 g, 18 mm.
Obv. Head of Apollo right, III:: in left field. Rev. C PISO L F FRV, horseman galloping right, holding reins and palm branch, T in exergue.
Crawford 408/1b; Sydenham 842c; RBW –; Charles Hersh, “A study of the coinage of the moneyer C. Calpurnius Piso L. F. Frugi”, NC 1976, 131 (Obverse 201).
Ex Opera Lover’s Collection.
CHOICE XF, struck in high relief, glossy dark gray tone with rose iridescent highlights, an extremely rare variety with these control marks.

C. Calpurnius Piso, L.f. Frugi is believed to have been the son of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, the moneyer of c. 90 BC and the son-in-law of the famous Roma orator, M. Tullius Cicero.