Sulla_Coin2.jpg (500 × 226 pixels, file size: 48 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description

[Roman Moneyer Issues] Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.80 g, 5h). Rome mint. FAVSTVS before, diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring and double necklace of pearls and pendants, and jewels in hair pulled into a knot; crescent above, lituus behind / FELIX at upper right, Sulla seated left on a raised seat; before him kneels Bocchus, offering an olive-branch; behind, Jugurtha kneeling left, wearing beard, hands tied behind his back. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Kestner 3455; BMCRR Rome 3824; Cornelia 59. Superb EF, hints of blue and golden iridescent toning, faint cleaning scratches on reverse.

Faustus was the son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the famous general and dictator of Rome (138-78 BC). The coin portrays Sulla's first great victory, in which he ended the Jugurthine War. Jugurtha, grandson of Massinissa of Numidia, had claimed the entire kingdom of Numidia in defiance of Roman decrees dividing it between several members of the royal family. Rome declared war on Jugurtha in 111 BC, but for five years the wily king frustrated all efforts to bring him to heel. Finally, in 106 the popular general Marius was assigned command, with Sulla as quaestor in charge of cavalry. Before Marius could take to the field against the enemy, however, Sulla arranged with his ally Bocchus of Mauretania to have Jugurtha ambushed and captured. Sulla was acclaimed for the bloodless end of the war, gaining his first victory and the eternal enmity of Marius. On the reverse of this coin, Bocchus offers an olive branch to a seated Sulla, with a bound Jugurtha kneeling beside him.
Date
Source CNG coins
Author CNG
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Classical Numismatic Group, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses:
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike 		This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
Attribution: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
You may select the license of your choice.
Other versions
Image extraction process

This file has multiple extracted images:

  • [[|thumb|none|320x160px|[[:|Bocchus I offers Jugurtha to Sulla]]]]
  • [[|thumb|none|320x160px|[[:|Bocchus I offers Jugurtha to Sulla]]]]

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

copyright status

copyrighted

copyright license

GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or later

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic

Wikimedia VRTS ticket number

2006092710009217

inception

2006

media type

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:45, 1 November 2007Thumbnail for version as of 14:45, 1 November 2007500 × 226 (48 KB)Ingsoc{{Information |Description= [Roman Moneyer Issues] Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.80 g, 5h). Rome mint. FAVSTVS before, diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring and double necklace of pearls and pendants, and jewe

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

View more global usage of this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sulla_Coin2.jpg
No tags for this post.