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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8189214, member: 128351"]In fact this medallion shows the god Janus, but one of his two faces was designed after Commodus' features.</p><p>It is one of these Commodian medallions minted for distribution as New Year gifts. This one, dated Tr.P XII Cos. V, is for 1st January 187. Janus is the traditional god of the New Year, and New Year gifts often had an effigy of Janus somewhere, like these early imperial New Year oil lamps featuring a Janus republican as. </p><p>The reverse, "<i>Tellus stabilita</i>", "Earth stabilized", shows an allegory of the Earth, her hand on a celestial globe, resting on a basket under a vine with a bunch of grapes, with four little allegories of the four seasons. The Romans too were annoyed by climatic instability, with sometimes bad crops as a consequence. "There are no more seasons, my good Sir" they probably said too often. This reverse promises the opposite: this year everything will be normal, seasons will come one after another at the right time, crops will come as expected and this year's vintage will be a good one![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8189214, member: 128351"]In fact this medallion shows the god Janus, but one of his two faces was designed after Commodus' features. It is one of these Commodian medallions minted for distribution as New Year gifts. This one, dated Tr.P XII Cos. V, is for 1st January 187. Janus is the traditional god of the New Year, and New Year gifts often had an effigy of Janus somewhere, like these early imperial New Year oil lamps featuring a Janus republican as. The reverse, "[I]Tellus stabilita[/I]", "Earth stabilized", shows an allegory of the Earth, her hand on a celestial globe, resting on a basket under a vine with a bunch of grapes, with four little allegories of the four seasons. The Romans too were annoyed by climatic instability, with sometimes bad crops as a consequence. "There are no more seasons, my good Sir" they probably said too often. This reverse promises the opposite: this year everything will be normal, seasons will come one after another at the right time, crops will come as expected and this year's vintage will be a good one![/QUOTE]
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