Ancient Roman woman's shoe -- show footwear on coins!

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HorseSHOES:

With all the racing Bigas, Trigas, and Quadrigas featured on Republic coins, they probably had shoes on their hooves to protect the owner's valuable investment!

Bronze Horseshoes were found in Etrurian tombs, from back in the late 5th Century BCE...


RR AR Denarius L Antestius Gragulus 136 BCE Rome mint Roma Jupiter quadriga tbolt Cr 238-1 Syd 451



RR 234-231 BCE AR Heavy Denarius - Didrachm Apollo-Horse prancing Crawford 26-1 Sear 28

 

The dangly things are decorative, and had been around a while. They are shown on the boots of the Dioscuri on Republican denarii minted several hundred years before your tetradrachm. I'd share a few examples, but I'm having difficulty uploading images in my current location. I seem to recall a previous thread where we discussed the danglies in detail.

 

Thank you.

I chuckle about these ROMAN coins being called DiDrachmae by modern numismatists. I really enjoyed Kennith Harl's book on the Roman Economy... he stated that, since the coin was tarriffed at 10 Asses, and Denarius is a derivative of Latin word TEN, then the Romans would had probably called these coins a DENARIUS... They were much heavier than the than the post-reform Denarii of 211 BCE. Ergo, Harl dubbed these as "Heavy Denarius". Kinda rethinking through the eyes of the people that ISSUED the coins, rather than what we PERCEIVE them today.

This horse is shy, not wanting to show his shoes:


RR Anon AR Heavy Denarius - Didrachm 275-270 BCE ROMANO Apollo-Galloping Horse Sear23

 

Some more :












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Nice examples @Cucumbor

 

That shoe is remarkably well-preserved! I also find it fascinating that its style would not look out of place today!

 

Obviously, the Greeks invented animal slippers.

 

This one we've had already - sandals on Cr. 384/1 denarius.



This is a very old and miserable photo' which I need to re-take. Hermes is tying his sandal on the reverse, behind Athena. Leucas stater, SNG Cop. 347.



ATB,
Aidan.

 

Wow , very stylish! Where do I get a pair?

 

Time travelers. The only possible explanation.

 

I have followed this interesting thread with attention. And so I would like to make a contribution here.

Often one sees that from the boots conspicuous tassels fall down. I have here 2 examples:
(1) Valens, RIC IX, (Constantinopolis) 25 (b) and


(2) Vetranio, VIII, (Siscia) 274

This footwear is the so-called mulleus, in which a cat-like animal scalp is attached frontally to the upper edge of the leg, while the paws hang down from the sides. They are iconographically connected with gods, heroes and of course with the emperor himself.

Literature: Cf. H. R. Goette, Mulleus Embas Calceus. Iconographic Studies on Roman Footwear, JdI 103, 1988, 401-464

Jochen

 

@randygeki
The boots with the tassels prove that it is not a simple soldier who leads the "barbarian" out of the hut, but a general or the emperor himself.

 

Here is Hermes wearing his winged boots on a bronze of Korykos...

 

Others have shown oots of this type so all I have to add is a bigger photo. Magnentius, Rome mint AE2

 

Nice details!

Jochen