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<p>[QUOTE="Andres2, post: 3192186, member: 79017"]Hard to believe that the prow honours Saturn' voyage on the reverse of all roman AE republic coins.</p><p>Saturn was already honoured on the semis obverse (half as)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]824332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]824333[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The prow of the galley was important because it played a decisive role in the punic wars against Carthago , the romans didn't have, nore did they know how to build a war galley. That changed when a carthagian war galley shipwrecked on the Italian coast . The romans didn't only copy this ship in vast numbers they added an important improvement , the aisle , so the roman legionairs could quickly enter the Carthagian galley.IMHO this is the reason of the prow on all these AE roman republic coins </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]824357[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My favourite RR as coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]824358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]824359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Aes Grave , Carausius Hope to get one some day[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andres2, post: 3192186, member: 79017"]Hard to believe that the prow honours Saturn' voyage on the reverse of all roman AE republic coins. Saturn was already honoured on the semis obverse (half as) [ATTACH=full]824332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]824333[/ATTACH] The prow of the galley was important because it played a decisive role in the punic wars against Carthago , the romans didn't have, nore did they know how to build a war galley. That changed when a carthagian war galley shipwrecked on the Italian coast . The romans didn't only copy this ship in vast numbers they added an important improvement , the aisle , so the roman legionairs could quickly enter the Carthagian galley.IMHO this is the reason of the prow on all these AE roman republic coins [ATTACH=full]824357[/ATTACH] My favourite RR as coins: [ATTACH=full]824358[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]824359[/ATTACH] Great Aes Grave , Carausius Hope to get one some day[/QUOTE]
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