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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 7391628, member: 91240&quot;]I’ve always enjoyed Japanese culture and media and lately I’ve been watching the anime <i>Vinland Saga</i> on Amazon Prime. It’s a fictional story rooted in some real events of the Viking Age and the Danish invasion of England. Although it definitely has a strong anime flavor with some over the top action, it also has a surprising degree of historical accuracy in many respects (not that the bar there is very high). I was still surprised to see an accurately depicted Roman antoninianus tossed around during episode 10. Without going into too much detail, the coin appears while two characters discuss mortality and aging amidst the backdrop of Roman ruins in England. For the anime it looks like they applied a filter but I was pretty sure that it was a photograph of an actual coin, so I dug a little deeper to try and identify it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286210[/ATTACH] </p><p>I went and checked the manga (Japanese comic) that the series is based on and sure enough, a photograph of the coin was pasted directly over the character’s hand without any filter! The reverse isn’t shown, but the obverse appears to be a relatively uncommon left facing bust of Postumus with the legend POSTVMVS AVG, <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/postumus/RIC_0310.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/postumus/RIC_0310.jpg" rel="nofollow">similar to this one</a>. Pretty neat! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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