DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS SILVER DENARIUS – EX HUBEL EX MARTINI COLLECTION FROM THE RATTO SALE OF 1930 – VF ROMAN REPUBLICAN COIN (Inv. 19922)

$2,400.00

19922. ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. CNAEUS DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS, d. 31/30 BC.
Silver Denarius, 3.93 g, 20 mm. Issue of an uncertain mint in the Adriatic area or the Ionian Sea.
Obv. AHENOBAR, head of Ahenobarbus with short beard right. Rev. CN DOMITIVS IMP, trophy on ship’s prow right.
Crawford 519/2; Sydenham 1177.
Ex Robert W. Hubel Collection, Michigan = Baranowsky, 2/25/1931, lot 960 = Joseph Martini Collection (part 3), R. Ratto, 2/24/1930, lot 588.
VF, minor edge splits.

Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was from a distinguished Roman political family. He may have been among the conspirators who murdered Julius Caesar, but that is not clear. After the murder he fought alongside Brutus, commanding a sizable naval contingent with which he won a great naval victory against the Second Triumvirate in 42 BC. After numerous political realignments in response to the volatile situation of the Civil War, he was given the consulship in 32 BC, but later died in 31 BC. The coin likely refers to his naval victories.