The quadrigatus was a medium-sized silver coin produced by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century BC.
Syracuse, Sicily, AE26. Roman Times, after 212 BC. Head of Zeus right / Slow quadriga right.
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quadriga - chariot drawn by four horses, or occasionally by four mules or elephants.
quinquennalia - anniversary of the fifth year of rule.
Quadrigatus
A silver coin, originally 6.8 grams, so called because of the reverse type of a deity driving a victorious quadriga, or 4-horse chariot.
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Quadriga r. driven by satrap whose head resembles the head on the obv. Aramaic inscr. in ex.
AV 135.9 grs.
Brit. Mus. [Head, B. M. Guide to Coins of Anc., Pl. XXVIII. 15; N. C., 1879, Pl. I. 2.] ...
Quadriga
a chariot drawn by a team of four animals, usually horses.
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The quadriga became an element common to most coins from Sicily, and was later used in many other parts of the Greek world. With the addition of Nike, with or without a wreath, the design is a celebration of victory.
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Constantine in quadriga right, with the hand of God extending out of the sky to receive him
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This side of the note combines two major themes: The 700 year jubilee of the city of Bielefeld in 1921 and the return of the Berlin Quadriga.
Constantine in a quadriga galloping, hand of God above
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of the quadrigatus-didrachm coinage. This coincided with the standardization of the types of the aes grave coinage, as previously described. This, the final didrachm coinage of Rome before the major currency reform of circa 211 B.C.
After roughly 60 years of denarii with the Dioscuri reverse, it became fashionable for moneyers to show a chariot driven by a god (here Sol) and pulled by two (biga) or four (quadriga) horses.
Zeus in quadriga, which, it will be remarked, are without inscription, either ROMA or Π. This fact, combined with their late style, renders it probable that they were issued during the Hannibalic war, B.C.
Quadriga Coins This is dealer site by educator Kevin Colosa. One of my first stops with a variety of helpful articles. Sear's Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage, by David R. Sear.
/P HYPSAE/AED CVR above Jupiter in quadriga left, CAPT rt., C HYPSAE COS PREIV in exer., scorpion below horses, SR299, RSC Aemilia 8, Syd. 913, Craw.422/1b.
-- Quadriga r, Nike crowning charioteer
Rev. Two eagles stg. r. on hare, locust in field l.
Sear G0750: Seltman, NC 1948, p.2 #2
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Slow quadriga left, pulling empty cart decorated with two figures on side panel, garland across front, model of victory quadriga on top of cart, model flanked by Victories with wreaths
19mm x 20mm, 3.00g
RIC II, 60 (S); Hendin 789a ...
/Jupiter in quadriga right, with sceptre and left and thunderbolt, M SILA (ligate) over ROMA in exergue.
This coin is problematic. I think it is one of the "Dacian" or "Balkan" imitations in good metal.
The inscription gives a hint to the reverse type - this is Sol, in a quadriga. Chariots with two horses are biga, three are triga, and four are quadriga. The design looks a little odd as the technique of perspective had not yet been developed.
Reverse: Victory driving a quadriga right, holding a wreath and palm branch, with "Q ANTO BALB / PR" below (some letters ligate) and a letter "E" just above the main inscription. Well-centered and attractive for the grade.
The obverse depicts a quadriga, or a chariot pulled by four spirited horses, the driver with an goad in an outstretched arm. Above is a triskeles, or three bent legs, representing the shape of Sicily.
Les Bruttii semblent avoir mis en place un système monétaire tri-métallique complet pendant la seconde guerre punique avec une drachme et une hémidrachme d'or d'étalon attique, un quadrigat, un nomos et un demi-nomos d'argent.
Laureate head right imp caes vesp avg pm cos iiii/Vespasian in triumphal quadriga right holding branch and scepter. The reverse commemorates the triumph of Vespasian and Titus over Judaea and is the same scene as depicted on the arch of Titus. .
The reverse depicts a quadriga or four-horse chariot galloping to the left with Nike the goddess of victory flying above crowning the charioteer.
Tetrastyle temple containing statue of Homooia standing left, holding patera over lighted altar and cornucopia. Emperor in facing quadriga in pediment. E in exergue.
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 See also: Coin, Wreath, Bust, Reverse, Revers
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