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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3161998, member: 19463"]These are not my 'thing' but I would start looking in the Colonies of the East (Ceasarea, Decopolis region) under Septimius Severus. This is just a feeling from style. 100% guess. Who here collects these regions and can say I am far off base? The reverse looks like a plowing or founder's scene.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm having trouble thinking of coin types that would remind people that the rulers ate better than they did. We have plenty of grain types but not yummy beast types. When we think of animals eaten in antiquity beef was not high on the list. We do see bull/cow sacrifice scenes and I'm sure the 'leftovers' were eaten but I don't recall much about beef as a popular edible with herds raised or the purpose. Who has studied this? </p><p><br /></p><p>Peta was not founded in ancient times. For that matter, the concept of ethical treatment of humans was not well founded then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3161998, member: 19463"]These are not my 'thing' but I would start looking in the Colonies of the East (Ceasarea, Decopolis region) under Septimius Severus. This is just a feeling from style. 100% guess. Who here collects these regions and can say I am far off base? The reverse looks like a plowing or founder's scene. I'm having trouble thinking of coin types that would remind people that the rulers ate better than they did. We have plenty of grain types but not yummy beast types. When we think of animals eaten in antiquity beef was not high on the list. We do see bull/cow sacrifice scenes and I'm sure the 'leftovers' were eaten but I don't recall much about beef as a popular edible with herds raised or the purpose. Who has studied this? Peta was not founded in ancient times. For that matter, the concept of ethical treatment of humans was not well founded then.[/QUOTE]
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