cf. NAC auction 63, lot 182 (in xf SFR 2.000 + 17,5%) | Afkortingen
17,00 mm
weight 4,10gr. | silver Ø 17mm.
obv. Laureate head of Jupiter right, S•C behind rev. Juno Sospita walking right, brandishing spear and holding shield, snake at her feet, L•PROCILI F behind
The gens Procilia, sometimes written Procillia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. The Procilii may have come from Lanuvium, an ancient city of Latium. This coin appears to allude to such an origin, depicting Juno Sospita, whose worship was centered on Lanuvium.
Members of this gens are first mentioned during the final century of the Republic, but few of them obtained any position of importance in the Roman state, and they are best known as a result of the historian Procillius, a contemporary of Cicero, whose work has been lost, but who was cited as a source by the Roman antiquarians.
Juno was the sister and consort of the god Jupiter, and queen mother of the gods, and the deity of Roman women, in various guises. As Juno Sospita, she received fervent invocations at the time of labor and the delivery of the newborn.
cf. NAC auction 63, lot 182 (in xf SFR 2.000 + 17,5%) cf. NAC auction 143, Zürich 7 May 2024, Lot 214 (in unc- : SFR 4.500 + 22,5%)
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