Quintus Aelius Lamina ?, dupondius, 8.59 g.

Quintus Aelius Lamina ?, dupondius, 8.59 g.

Quintus Aelius Lamina

c. 15 BCE

Obverse: AVGVSTVS TRIBVNIC POTEST, in three lines; oak wreath border.

Reverse: Around, Q [AE]LIVS LAMIA, III VIR A A A F F; in field, S C.

Style/Period: Roman Republic

Quintus Aelius Lamia was the magistrate under Augustus and was the son of L. Aelius Lami, the consul of A.D. 3. He could also have been a friend of Horace. The oak wreath border on the obverse refers to the corona civica awarded Octavian in 27 BCE. The inscription on the reverse refers to the triumvir aere, argento, auro, flando, feriundo, the new name for the triumviri monetales, the three men in charge of striking and castint bronze, silver, and gold.
-- Bradford W. Wendel, LU '96

Bibliography: E. Babelon, Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la republique romaine (Paris and London 1885-1886) Aelia, 7; H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910), II, 86-87, no. 4614; J. P. C. Kent, Roman Coins (New York 1978) pl. 39, no. 139; R. A. G. Carson, Principal Coins of the Romans, II (London 1980) 10, no. 337; C. Foss, Roman Historical Coins (London 1990) 47, no. 35a.

Classics Department Collection

C051

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