Denarius | |
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Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) behind. | Dioscuri on horseback riding right. Below CN • DO; ROMA in exergue in tablet |
AR; 18mm; 4.17 g; Rome mint. |
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was son of the Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who had been consul in 192 BC,[1] was chosen pontifex in 172 BC when still a young man,[2] and in 169 BC was sent with two others as commissioners into Macedonia.[3] In 167 BC he was one of the ten commissioners for arranging the affairs of Macedonia in conjunction with Aemilius Paulus;[4] and when the consuls of 162 BC abdicated on account of some fault in the auspices in their election, he and Cornelius Lentulus were chosen consuls in their stead.[5][6]