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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Scipio, post: 5136000, member: 103869&quot;][ATTACH=full]1205065[/ATTACH] I’m very proud of the last add to my collection, a very scarce coin with the wrong legend CEESIUS.</p><p><b><i>L. Papius Celsus. </i></b>45 BC. AR Denarius. Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin / She-wolf standing right, placing stick on fire; to right, eagle standing left, fanning flames. Crawford 472/1.</p><p>The obverse depicts the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Sospita" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Sospita" rel="nofollow">Juno Sospita</a> whose main center of worshipping was Lanuvium (a village near Rome) and the reverse depicts a founder myth. When a fire broke out spontaneously in the forest, a wolf brought some dry wood in his mouth and threw it upon the fire, and an eagle fanned the flame with the motion of his wings. But a fox, after wetting his tail in the river, was trying to put it out. Wolf and eagle got the upper hand and the fox went away. Wolf and eagle represent strenght and wisdom of Rome, and the Fox the city’s enemies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1205064[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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