Titus Labienus of Cingoli is an ancient figure well known to historians, especially from a military perspective. He was a tribune of the plebs in 62 BC, Caesar's legate in Gaul, and in 52 BC he fought against the Parisii (inhabitants of the future Paris). He was primarily a military commander and displayed great talent in the Gallic Wars alongside Julius Caesar, whose trusted general he was, but his political fortunes were not as favorable. In fact, in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, he sided with the latter, whose defeat also marked the end of his fortune. In the passage quoted by Julius Caesar in his "De bello civili" (On the Civil War), he mentions Cingoli and Labienus: "...eliam Cingillus, quod oppidum Labienus constituerat suaque poecunia exaedicaverat...": this sentence has caused and still causes historians to debate its interpretation.
Cesare means that Labieno has built Tracks or did he simply restored, fortified, and is embellished with the money accumulated in the gallic wars? And much more credible the second hypothesis. Around the figure of Tito Labieno (the gens Labiena has had, both before and after Tito Labieno public figures of considerable historical) wheel also research and discussion on the history of the same Tracks. One of these historic, Orazio Avicenna, shows in his dissertation around the foundation of the Tracks the testimony of two medals, and I quote, says: because of a Medal of Labieno, that from time immemorial, is, that it is in the hands of a few Caterpillars, in Casa de Lords Silvestri particularly, do not see other things, that Labieno the way dé Captains ancient Hidden in the head by a portion in which the law TITVS LABIENVS, and on the other there is carved the figure of Tracks with a anphiteatro in the middle, and with the word, CINGVLVM.. (O. Avicenna page. 53 "Memories of the town of Cingoli" – 1644). The Avicenna continues in the same page, reporting the testimony of another important historic cingolano his contemporary, The abbot Giavampietro Honored on the discovery of another medal depicting Tito Labieno.
Here are the words of the Honored: "...Et to see in the medal effigialo Labieno with the concealed-in-chief, shall not unlikely topic: but for the base, and for the foundation of this truth addurrò a beautiful monimento of Antiquity. which is preserved in Reindeer in the hands of Maximilian Vuemner Gentil homo German ‘Vatione Bauro. This is an ancient Medal, a part which you see Labieno in the habit of military and there is written TITVS LABIENVS LEPORILLUS. in rouerso is the caterpillar form of a Woman with the Tower in the head, and holding a Cornucopia à the foot of a tree lies a Deer (Company, Arms of our Town) the head, which seems wild boar; there is written around SECURITATI PERPETVE, alli foot Former MANVBIIS...".
The description of these two medals, which are also represented in the cited text of Avicenna, are two historical to endorse the thesis about the veracity of the foundation of the Tracks from Tito Labieno.
It can be assumed that the medals were actually coined-but not in the period of Tito Labieno, that is, the time in which it lived our character. The likelihood that the same have been minted, subsequently, for two simple reasons: in the first medal described from Avicenna in the image in which it is reported “Cingulum” you see on city walls, in which there are public buildings, the merlons carved that are typically medieval. Another historical cingolano, Adriano Pennacchioni, in his book "the remains of the roman era Tracks" p. 25, 1972, defines the medals or coins for the reasons stated above "a fake coin". Always the same author, in the same work, reports the testimony that: "there is one also in the Tracks coming into the possession of Fabio Cavallini". In the second medal that another scholar cingolano , Paul Appignanesi in the book "The liberation of Caterpillars and other pages of history families of cingoli" page. 423, 1986 argues that the second medal given by Avicenna (Tav. The and witnessed daIl 'Honored, "is considered to be a clumsy work of the Renaissance from the time of Avicenna does not seem to me there is a doubt. Suffice it to only observe that the personification of the Securitas appears for the first time in the 64-66 d. C. . and that the neither the auction, nor the crown turrina or gestures do not express that perfect tranquility".
The medals described and reported from Avicenna in his text, Tav. the Tav. The. they are the first diameter is 65mm, the second diameter 56mm, and on the basis of the historical evidence collected is the opinion that the same are not of the roman period, but a period much more recent, and have been coined to give credit to the theory that Tito Labieno is the author of the construction and/or reconstruction of the town of Cingoli. These evaluations are elicited only by hard-copy documentation as on the medals was not possible to have no direct testimony.
So far, I have analyzed and refuted only the medals described by Avicenna, but an in-depth study I had the chance, always and only at the level of written texts and never having any medal, to observe the photo of a medal given to the pages in the book of Lara Balducci, Luigi Marchegiani – Mario Valentini "Encounter with the Tracks", 1961 . Unfortunately, in the text there is no reference to the source from which it is taken, the photos, nor the medal is not at all mentioned. But it is a documentation is also very important. This is easy to understand why the description of this "new" coin is located on pages 10 and 11 of the text of Gualtiero Raffaelli "Tracks in its history", in 1923, when it reports that "having found the medals struck in honor of Tito Labieno I don't think that could stand to prove he was the founder of our City, who perhaps wanted to show his gratitude for having been the restorer. One of these medals, according to Maffei, in his "Verona illustrata" that already exquisitely embellished, the Museum of the eruditissimo Bishop Francesco Bianchini, with on one side a person armed with a helmet on the head, and the warrior garb of the ancient., with the words around T. LABIENVS, while on the reverse are effigiate the walls of a city, in the middle of a door, and within them other factories. Around c ‘is the word CINGVLVM. The Corleo (Abram Corleo Thes: numism. fam_ ...Tab. 24 No. 1) claims to have seen a specimen in gold, the same words, and gets a result that was coined by Cingolani in gratitude to Labieno for having surrounded the City with new walls".
Now comparing the medal Table. The Avicenna with the one photographed in the book of Balducci - Marchegiani -Valentini and described by G. Raffaelli, we find the following dissonance: the right of that of Avicenna has written Titvs Labienvs to the left and extended, the other has the text on the right, and T. Labienvs where Titvs is not extended. The latter is of a diameter of 73mm (if the pictures are not deceiving you, those Avicenna 65mm. The image of the Labieno is not absolutely equal, the somatic signs of the face are very different. On the reverse we find in this the second medal with the walls of Tracks that are not squares, the buildings contained within the walls are not the same as the medal of the Avicenna; moreover, both in the law that on the reverse around the whole of the medal are shown in dotted lines delimitativi.
From the comparison of the two medals can I assume that these are two medals with different and for the aforementioned diversity found, I suppose, that the latter, where there is the testimony of a photo, it can be of roman and coined by cingolani for gratitude towards Tito Labieno that with his money had helped to turn the city a Municipium through public works of the remarkable extent to which the construction of the new walls. Of course, it is a guess because, not having materially medal in the vision, it can also be a riconio the next, but the roman-style. While to those described from Avicenna, there is the certainty that they are of a later period to the middle Ages, perhaps even in the Renaissance; the medal in the Tav. I, was coined (but if it was done) similar to the one photographed and described above, thanks to the various similarities. In conclusion I can formulate the following hypothesis: the cingolani the time of Tito Labieno issue a medal to thank him for his many public works for the city; in the period post medieval (Renaissance) refer to the same coin, but by making changes in their time of riconiazione the same. In the same period issue another (Tav. The dell’ Avicenna). These two medals of Avicenna, only serve to promote the thesis that the Tracks have been built and/or rebuilt from the Tito Labieno, and then give importance and prestige to the town of Cingoli.
You are, of course, especially with regard to the medal "roman" , other testimonies from collectors or scholars who have had the material to direct knowledge, to support and/or contradict the assumptions described above. Considered that it was not possible to have direct any medal described from Avicenna, as a Circle we want to offer our gratitude to the authors who have passed on these stories, and especially Tito Labieno, faithfully reproducing the medals of Avicenna except for their size. In fact, those minted by the Club are smaller (diameter 50 mm) than the Avicenna reproduces in his book "Memories of the town of Cingoli».
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