This coin was struck in 82 BC. While not much is known of the moneyer there were several notable events that happened in that year. Sulla successfully defeated the Samnites and took control of Rome. Gaius Marius, the Younger, was besieged at Praeneste (Palestrina) and eventually committed suicide. Pompey is ordered by Sulla to to bring the Marian rebels to their knees in Sicily and Africa while a very young Julius Caesar is tasked to handle the Eastern cities. After his successful campaigns in both Sicily and Africa, Pompey gets the nickname adulescentulus carnifex, which translates into “the teenage butcher”. The second Mithridatic War begins. The Gallic warrior Vercingetorix is born. The Roman Republican time period is one where the person that struck the coins may or may not have been significant in the realm of history, however, the political climate is certainly rich.