Quintus Lutatius Cerco, silver denarius, 3.96 g.
Title
Quintus Lutatius Cerco, silver denarius, 3.96 g.
Creator
Quintus Lutatius Cero
Date
109 - 108 BCE
Description
Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma facing right, helmet crested, with ornamented side; above, [R]OMA; before, CERCO upwards; behind, star. Border of dots.
Reverse: Galley with oars right, prow ending in helmeted human head; above, Q LVTATI; around, corona civica. Border of dots.
Style/Period: Roman Republic
Quintus Lutatius Cerco issued this coin while serving as quaestor. With the reverse type (see coins C014, C022), he commemorates the naval victory of C. Lutatius Catulus over the Carthaginian fleet at the Aegates Islands in 241 BCE. The head on the obverse may be Mars.
-- Bradford W. Wendel, LU '96
Bibliography: E. Babelon, Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la republique romaine (Paris and London 1885-1886) Lutatia, 2; H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910), II, 297-298, no. 636; T. R. S. Broughton, The Magitrates of the Roman Republic, II (New York 1952) 444, 583; E. A. Sydenham, The Coinage of the Roman Republic (London 1952) 75, no. 559; M. H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (London 1974) 315, no. 305/1.
-- Bradford W. Wendel, LU '96
Bibliography: E. Babelon, Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la republique romaine (Paris and London 1885-1886) Lutatia, 2; H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910), II, 297-298, no. 636; T. R. S. Broughton, The Magitrates of the Roman Republic, II (New York 1952) 444, 583; E. A. Sydenham, The Coinage of the Roman Republic (London 1952) 75, no. 559; M. H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (London 1974) 315, no. 305/1.
Source
Classics Department Collection
Identifier
C020
Rights
Wriston Art Center Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI,wriston-gallery@lawrence.edu,920-832-6890
Files
Citation
Quintus Lutatius Cero, “Quintus Lutatius Cerco, silver denarius, 3.96 g.,” Lawrence University Classics Department & Ottilia Buerger Coin Collections, accessed November 5, 2026, https://thor.lawrence.edu/omeka/buerger/items/show/381.