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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2402841, member: 57495&quot;]Happy Birthday, Rome!</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius celebrated the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome. As a run up to the celebrations, he issued a series of coins depicting various evocative scenes from the founding myths of Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad there&#039;s an annual reason for me to show these two coins.&nbsp; I count them amongst my favourites <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495467[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b>, AE As. 11.02g, 28.6mm. RIC 733.</p><p>Aeneas was a Trojan hero who escaped the fall of Troy. He journeyed with his followers to Latium, where a divine dream led him to found a new settlement at a site where he came across a white sow suckling her young by a river under an oak tree. On his way, he had a little fling with Dido, founder and queen of Carthage, whom he subsequently abandoned. It&#039;s perhaps no surprise then that when Aeneas&#039;s descendants went on found Rome that there would be a little bit of bad blood between the two great powers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495468[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b>, AE As. 11.34g, 27.8mm. RIC 694a.</p><p>This one shows the parental units of Romulus and Remus about to discuss some family planning. Rhea Silvia was a vestal virgin, daughter of Numitor, the King of Alba Longa, and a descendant of Aeneas. Mars was the Roman god of war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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