COIN (ROMAN)

A silver Roman Republican denarius of M Furius Philus (119 BC), mint of Rome, RRC 281/1. 

Ruler: Republic
Moneyer: Furius Philus, M.
Denomination: Denarius (Roman Republic)
Material: Silver
Mint: Rome
Obverse: Laureate head of Janus, around, inscription. Border of dots.
Obverse legend: M·FOVRI·L·F
Reverse: Roma standing left, holding sceptre in left hand and crowing trophy with right hand; above, star; the trophy is surmounted by a helmet in the form of a boar's head and flanked by a carnyx and shield on each side. Border of dots.
Reverse legend: ROMA
Dated: -119.0 to 
Weight (g): 3.07
Parish: Usk
District: Monmouthshire
County: Monmouthshire
Region: Wales
Discovery method: Unknown
RRC reference: rrc-281.1
Notes: 
This data is sourced from the corpus of work produced by Peter Guest and Nick Wells, entitled "Iron Age and Roman coins of Wales. There are no images to accompany this series and our staff did not identify these coins. Questions about these data should be directed to Dr Guest/ Dr Wells.