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20 = Crawford 494/24
Mint Date 42 B.C.E.

Moneyer Lucius Livineius Regulus
Denomination Denarius
Material Silver
Dimensions 17mm
Weight 4.0g
Mint Rome
Classification Sydenham 1106; Crawford 494/24
Type-Obverse Laureate head of Caesar to right; behind, laurel
branch; before, caduceus; border of dots
Type-Reverse Bull charging to right; above, L·LIVINEIVS; below,
REGVLVS; border of dots
Legend-Obverse [none]
Legend-Reverse L·LIVINEIVS REGVLVS



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21 = Crawford 494/39a
Mint Date 42 B.C.E.

Moneyer Lucius Mussidius Longus
Denomination Denarius
Material Silver
Dimensions 21mm
Weight 3.74g
Mint Rome
Classification Sydenham 1096c; Crawford 494/39a
Type-Obverse Laurate head of Caesar to right; border of dots
Type-Reverse Cornucopiae on globe; on left rudder; on right cadu-
ceus (wand entwined by serpents) and apex (pointed priests’s cap);
around, L·MVSSIDIVS·LONGVS; border of dots
Legend-Obverse [none]
Legend-Reverse L·MVSSIDIVS·LONGVS



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22 = Crawford 514/2
Mint Date 41 B.C.E.

Moneyer Gaius Numonius Vaala
Denomination Denarius
Material Silver
Dimensions 21mm
Weight 3.78g
Authority Roman Republic
Mint Rome
Classification Sydenham 1087; Crawford 514/2
Type-Obverse Head of Caesar to right; before, C·NVMONIVS down-
wards; behind, VAALA upwards; border of dots
Type-Reverse soldier rushing to left; attacking vallum (= rampart,
which Crawford describes); in exergue VAALA; border of dots
Legend-Obverse C·NVMONIVS VAALA
Legend-Reverse VAALA



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23 = Roman Provincial Coinage I 517,
cf. Sydenham 1330
Mint Date 36 B.C.E.

Moneyer anonymous
Denomination Dupondius
Material Bronze
Dimensions 29mm
Weight 20.85g
Mint Vienna (Gaul)
Classification RPC I 517; cf. Sydenham 1330
Type-Obverse On the left, head of Caesar to left; on the right, head
of Octavian to right, above, IMP; below, CAESAR; on right, DIVI•F;
on left DIVOS IVLIVS
Type-Reverse Prow of galley to right, with superstructure and mast
on the right, and eye on the hull at the front; above, C I V
Legend-Obverse IMP CAESAR DIVI•F DIVOS IVLIVS
Legend-Reverse C I V

56 THE BADIAN COLLECTION AT RUTGERS

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES

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Badian, Ernst. 1995. “From the Roman Republic to Augustus: Conti-
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Burnett, Andrew, et al. Roman Provincial Coinage. London: British Mu-
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Cody, Jane. 2019. “Lily Ross Taylor: ‘The Contribution of the Coinage
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Nousek, Debra. 2008. “Turning Points in Roman History: The Case of
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THE ERNST BADIAN COLLECTION
OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINS AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Since 2001, the Special Collections and Archives department of the Rut-
gers University Libraries has been the home to the Ernst Badian Col-
lection of Roman Republican Coins. Composed of more than 1200
items dating from ca. 280 to 31 B.C.E., it is perhaps the finest teaching
collection of its type in North America.

The gift of this collection from Ernst Badian (1925-2011), formerly John
Moors Cabot Professor of History at Harvard University, instantly
made Rutgers an important center for research and instruction in nu-
mismatics. Especially significant is that Badian shared with Rutgers
his own scholarship about each coin, in many cases revising estab-
lished reference works in the field. All of the coins and their data have
been published digitally: the results can be seen online at coins.li-
braries.rutgers.edu