BEAUTIFUL GENS SERGIA!!

M Sergius Silus Denarius. 116 BC. EX S C ROMA *, head of Roma right / horseman galloping left with sword & severed head held aloft, Q below horses leg, M SERGI below, SILVS in ex.

Beautiful republic gens i have been waiting to get my hands on... just look at the horse movement on reverse. And this creepy barbarian severed head uuuuu.

Joannus dixit.

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"Family of plebeian origin, said to be descending from the troian Sergeste, companion of Eneas. The most famous member is Lucius Sergius Catalina, author of the famous conspiracy that carried his name, and was harshly attacked by Cicero in the eternal "catilinariae".

Only one kind of coin minted from this gens, remembering the memory of the deeds of Marcus Sergius, the heroic forefather.

Reverse represents the moneyer's grand-father MarcusSergius, whose bravery, during the second punic war, became legendary. He is said to have lost his right hand in combat, and went fighting only with the left one. He had a new hand of iron made for himself an got more than twenty wounds during that war." (source - tesorillo.com)