A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

19. Q.Oppius, known only from the annexed coin, cannot be identified with certainty with any of the persons previously mentioned. The PR. after the name of Q. OPPIVS may signify either praetor or praeiectus. The obverse represents the head of Venus, and the reverse Victory: the coin was probably struck in one of the provinces. (Eckhel vol. v. pp. 264, 265.)