In this year, even though Sulla died, there's still mop up fighting going on between the remnants of both factions. Sertorious is up in control of Spain.

Interestingly, every coin authority shows this denarius as 77 B.C. But, the Wikipedia entry for Lucius Rutillius Flaccus says he was monetalis (money maker) in about 75 B.C., based on T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, pp. 612–613. If he was monetalis in 75 B.C. then in stands to reason that this denarii is actually from 75 B.C. not 77 B.C.

Crawford 387/1; Sydenham 780; BMCRR 3242; Rutilia 1

This coin is all we got from an incredible collection of republican denarii in December, 2015 by artemide aste in San Marino. Thanks to this auction we've now heard of San Marino. San Marino is an independent nation inside Italy, up in a mountain. Kind of like the Vatican, except there's no Pope and its a republic. They claim to be the oldest existing Republic in the world, actually. The country gained independence from the Roman Empire in 301 A.D.

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