I tried for a catchy pun in the title but I feel I failed.
Anyway. This post is collecting various things that may or may not be related to the moneyer of RRC 358, of which I’ve blogged before mostly just noting that it is one of a kind and in Berlin.
It popped into my brain while reading Cic. Fam. 8.8
That sent me digging in up Laterensis in DPRR.
The praetor of 51 BCE is unlikely to be our moneyer, assuming Crawford is write about the date (and for that for now we only have stylistic considerations and his date seems plausible, cf. Bead and Reel borders and laurel wreath borders and serration on the Republican Coin Series.
But we do have some epigraphic testimony that might be too early for the praetor of 51 BCE that could be the moneyer:
Looking for the above I also found this:
AE 1888: 36 = CIL 14, 4091, 12
Anyway. The Family is ripe for some prosopographical sniffing out to see if we can say more about the moneyer. We could also potentially date it by comparison to RACOM data if we could use Muonic x-rays on it….
Liv Mariah Yarrow 