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Lot # 3129

Roman Republican and Imperatorial Mn. Aemilius Lepidus, AR denarius, issued 114 - 113 BCE. Rome, 3.84 g Obv: Laureate, diademed and draped bust of Roma right, ROMA before, * behind. Rev:M N AEMILIO, equestrian statue right on three arches, L E P between the arches. Crawford 291/1; Sydenham 554; Aemilia 7. Toned

The arch likely depicts the aqueduct begun by the moneyer’s ancestor M. Aemilius Lepidus in 179, but completed and named after Q. Marcius Rex. There was apparently some dispute about the name, and our moneyer may have wished to set the record straight.