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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2869450, member: 74282&quot;]The scorpion is not fully understood. The earliest dies of the Scaurus/Plautius coins did not bear the scorpion and it seems to have been added around the same time that &quot;REX ARETAS&quot; was added. Given that the scorpion is on the reverse, which alludes to the capture of the city of Privernum, I think it is probably related to the moneyer named on the reverse or something related to his family rather than the events alluded to by the obverse. I will be co-authoring a paper in the next year or so which should shed some additional light on this issue by analysis of the dies and varieties that make it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of the scarce early sans-scorpion and sans-Aretas issues:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]685362[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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