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<p>[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 4164682, member: 74968"]The pulvinaria are the couches or seats of the gods. Here is a couple of points regarding these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>“[They] are a new <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Type" rel="nofollow">type</a> to the Roman series, and termed pulvinaria, or sacred couches of the gods. While <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mattingly" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mattingly" rel="nofollow">Mattingly</a> attributed these to the eruption of Vesuvius, recent scholarship tends to place these commemorating the opening of the Colosseum, at which there may have been seats for honored guests.”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Flavian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Flavian" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Flavian</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“In the following year there are a number of common denarii, all with new reverse types. The coins portray on their obverses either Titus or Domitian Caesar, and most belong to a group which Mattingly and Sydenham described as “‘supplicatio” coins showing [on their reverses] the exhibition of the emblems of the gods on “pulvinaria”’.’ Mattingly assumed that the coins commemorated a recent ceremony of supplication following a disaster - the eruption of Vesuvius. The series was to be repeated at the start of Domitian’s reign, possibly to commemorate another service of supplication following the great fire of 80. The only ‘common’ denarius of 80 not apparently belonging to the ‘supplicatio’ series depicts an elephant, which is assumed to relate to the famous games marking the inauguration of the Colosseum in that year.” </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Carradice, I , Towards a new introduction of the Flavian coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 4164682, member: 74968"]The pulvinaria are the couches or seats of the gods. Here is a couple of points regarding these coins. “[They] are a new [URL='https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Type']type[/URL] to the Roman series, and termed pulvinaria, or sacred couches of the gods. While [URL='https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mattingly']Mattingly[/URL] attributed these to the eruption of Vesuvius, recent scholarship tends to place these commemorating the opening of the Colosseum, at which there may have been seats for honored guests.” [URL]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Flavian[/URL] “In the following year there are a number of common denarii, all with new reverse types. The coins portray on their obverses either Titus or Domitian Caesar, and most belong to a group which Mattingly and Sydenham described as “‘supplicatio” coins showing [on their reverses] the exhibition of the emblems of the gods on “pulvinaria”’.’ Mattingly assumed that the coins commemorated a recent ceremony of supplication following a disaster - the eruption of Vesuvius. The series was to be repeated at the start of Domitian’s reign, possibly to commemorate another service of supplication following the great fire of 80. The only ‘common’ denarius of 80 not apparently belonging to the ‘supplicatio’ series depicts an elephant, which is assumed to relate to the famous games marking the inauguration of the Colosseum in that year.” Carradice, I , Towards a new introduction of the Flavian coinage.[/QUOTE]
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