Denarius of Gaius Marius Capito, 81 BC. Ceres is shown on the obverse, while the reverse depicts a ploughman with yoke of oxen.
The gens Maria was a plebeian family of Rome. Its most celebrated member was Gaius Marius, one of the greatest generals of antiquity, and seven times consul.[1][2]
^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 949 ("Maria Gens").
^Gilman, Daniel (1905). The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Mead and Company.
