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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1873163, member: 57495&quot;]Here&#039;s a coin I just received that I&#039;m very happy to add to my tiny collection of Roman Republicans.&nbsp; A similar piece originally caught my eye in the recent Pecunem 12 auction, but being a fairly scarce type and in very nice condition it hammered at a price that was too rich for my blood.&nbsp; As luck would have it, this one came along a few days later in the Roma 5 auction and I managed to snag it.&nbsp; As a little bonus, it&#039;s Ex Andrew McCabe Collection and is the same coin that he features in his webpage on Campania (in the section about the town of Herculaneum).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]316406[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p><b>Q. CREPEREIUS M. F. ROCUS</b></p><p>Denarius (3.69g, 18mm)</p><p>Rome mint, 72 BC.</p><p>Crawford 399/1b.</p><p>O: Bust of Amphitrite right, control marks to left (squid) and right.</p><p>R: Neptune in biga of sea-horses, brandishing trident, control mark above, Q. CREPER. M. F. ROCVS in two lines below.</p><p>Ex Andrew McCabe Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>From Andrew McCabe&#039;s page (<a href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Italy.html#Herc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Italy.html#Herc" rel="nofollow">http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Italy.html#Herc</a>) :</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The House of Neptune and Amphitrite has a garden room in place of the usual peristyle, richly decorated with mosaics. It&#039;s not a huge house, which explains its non standard arrangements - there&#039;s no room for a peristyle - but the quality of the mosaics and general decorative standard indicates a wealthy proprietor. On one wall of the garden court are some recessed areas perhaps for statues or Lares, with mosaics of dogs and stags surrounding, and above them theatre masks. The garden court wall mosaics use pieces of glass to give the vivid colours and reflect light, and thus are brighter and more colourful than more robust floor mosaics made of tile. That of Neptune and Amphitrite his consort is oddly named. The Roman names should be Neptune and Salacia or Greek Poseidon and Amphitrite, but it&#039;s very nautical in any event with brights sea shell surrounds and predominantly sea blue, a colour that doesn&#039;t appear much on Vesuvaian walls. There is a rare and elegantly engraved Roman coin with the same types usually named thus, Neptune in a biga of hippocamps and Amphitrite with behind her a squid, minted by one Crepereius in 69BC. Fishy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m planning a trip to Italy in a couple of months and hopefully will be able to visit Herculaneum and pop into the House of Neptune and Amphitrite myself. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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