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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2496216, member: 44132&quot;]<font size="5">I purchased this lot of two coins mainly for the RR Denarius and I am not disappointed.&nbsp; It&#039;s one you don&#039;t see often, but I do not think it is rare.</font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]528996[/ATTACH]</p><p>NUMERIUS FABIUS PICTOR</p><p>AR DENARIUS</p><p>OBVERSE: Head of Roma right in winged helmet, G below chin, mark of value behind</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; N•FABI / PICTOR; The Flamen Quirinalis, Q. Fabius Pictor, seated left; shield at side inscribed QVI/RIN in two lines, ROMA in ex</p><p>Rome, 126 BC</p><p>3.7g, 17mm</p><p>Cr268/1; 1b; Fabia 11; Sydenham 517a</p><p><br /></p><p>Q Fabius Pictor was appointed Praetor of Sardenia in 187 BC, but as he had been consecrated &quot;Flamen Quirinalis, was not allowed to take up his post.&nbsp; The reverse depicts him as a soldier and a priest.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were three flamines maiores; the flamines serving the three gods of the Archaic Triad (Jupitor, Mars, and Quirinus).&nbsp; Quirinus was an ancient Roman state god. Originally a Sabine war god, he was absorbed by the Romans.&nbsp; By the late Republic period, Quirinus was regarded as identical with the deified Romulus and was the god of Roman citizenship.&nbsp; Quirinus&#039; chief priest was the Flamen Quirinalis, who was bound by the same strictures as other major flamines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the second coin.&nbsp; The one I need help to identify.&nbsp; I have no earthly idea.&nbsp; I thought it looked Spanish, but I couldn&#039;t find anything like it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529002[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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