Central Italy, 100-30 BC., Italo-Baetican type, Æ 15, C. Stannard, Series 80.
Central Italy, Italo-Baetican type, ca. 100-30 BC.,
Æ 15 (14-15 mm / 1,08 g), bronze, axes irregular alignment ↑→ (ca. 90°), corroded,
Obv.: head of Vulcan right, wearing pileus and with tongs on shoulder.
Rev.: [MA] , Lion running right; MA -monogram below; linear border.
Clive Stannard "The Local Coinages of Central Italy in the Late Roman Republic" , Provisional Catalogue, October 2007, Series 80 (4 pieces listed) ; Milan, M.986.14.121 ; Milan, M.986.14.123 .
cf. Clive Stannard, Iconographic parallels between the local coinages of central Italy and Baetica in the first century BC, Acta Numismática 25 (1995), 21 ; for overstrikes: Overstrikes and imitative coinages in central Italy in the late Republic, Essays Hersh 209ff. .