Ancient Roman Stoneware Casting mold for a Roman denarius...

An excellent preserved rectangular forgery mold pair for a denarius of Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Description/Data: Find location: Spain/ Province of Hispania Tarraconensis/ City of Caesaraugusta (Saragossa), Excavation site: In a rubble field, preserved sewerage of a Villa Rustica. Year of find: 1975 Currency: Denarius (silver) Material: reddish clay, terracotta Time: first half of the 3rd century AD Currency: Denarius/ silver Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus or Maximinus I. (* 172 or 173 and possibly up to ten years later in Thrace (?); died April 238 in Aquileia) was a Roman emperor from 235 to 238. He is traditionally regarded as the first “soldier-emperor.” His reign is associated with the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century. Denarius obverse: Imperial bust draped with a laurel wreath Denarius reverse: Emperor standing in the center between two standards of the Legions, RIC. Length × diameter: approx. 35 mm × 55 mm and in thickness about 5 mm Weight: Obverse: 13.13 g / Reverse: 13.02 g Form number: Roman MMMCLXXXXII = 3192 Condition: Obverse (excellent) whole and Reverse (very good) whole. Special feature: Reverse is different and not listed Additionally, the mold shape was likely subjected to heat (fire damage). The molds can be collected in person very gladly.

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