C MEMMIUS SILVER DENARIUS – CAPTIVE AND TROPHY TYPE EX ELVIRA CLAIN-STEFANELLI COLLECTION – XF NGC GRADED ROMAN REPUBLICAN COIN (Inv. 21408)

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21408. ROMAN REPUBLIC. C. MEMMIUS, ca. 56 BC.
Silver Denarius, 3.78 g, 19 mm. Issue of Rome.
Obv. C MEMMI C F, Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain. Rev. C MEMMIVS IMPERATOR, bound captive kneeling below trophy.
Crawford 427/1; Sydenham 920.
Ex Elvira Eliza Clain–Stefanelli Collection, NAC 92/2, 5/24/2016, lot 1845.
NGC XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, provenance noted on label. Clain–Stefanelli was former curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Numismatic Collection for many decades. It was under her tenure, and that of her husband Vladimir, that the National Numismatic Collection grew to nearly one million objects.