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- ↑ Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum v. p. 205.
- ↑ Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 332, no. 333.
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae iii. 3, 15, iv. 2, v. 19.
- ↑ AE 1933, 105
- ↑ PLRE, vol. 1, p. 230.
- ↑ CIL XIV, 4410, CIL XIV, 4412
- ↑ PLRE, vol. 1, p. 420.
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- Crawford, Michael H. (2001) [1974]. Roman Republican Coinage I. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07492-4.
- PLRE – A.H.M. Jones & J.R. Martindale & J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire , Cambridge University Press (1971–1992).