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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 3615375, member: 83175&quot;]Well, in honour of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, here&#039;s Whipping Boy and a live version of &quot;That Was Then, This Is Now&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The sound quality isn&#039;t the best, but it opens with &quot;Man walked on the Moon when I was only two...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]bUAp3BNJNaU[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the latest coin I&#039;ve added - a Roman Republican denarius of L. Roscius Fabatus of ca. 64 BC (according to Crawford, dated to 62BC by Harlan).&nbsp;&nbsp; The obverse had the goatskin-clad head of Juno Sospita right, with a control symbol behind (a branch in this case).&nbsp;&nbsp; The reverse has a girl feeding a coiled snake.&nbsp;&nbsp; Juno Sospita was a goddess associated with Lanuvium, adopted by the Romans when the city&#039;s residents became Roman citizens as early as 338 BC and the Roman consuls visited Lanuvium each year to worship at her home town.&nbsp;&nbsp; The reverse depicts a local ritual where, according to Aelian in &quot;On the Nature of Animals&quot;, maidens would bring barley cakes to a cave, the lair of a snake.&nbsp;&nbsp; They&#039;d enter the cavern blindfolded and Divine Inspiration would guide them to the snake, apparently.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the girl was a virgin, the snake would eat the food, if not, it would remain uneaten and ants would carry out pieces of the cakes and the rest of the locals would know of the chastity or otherwise of the girls.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was a very large issue of coins - Crawford counted 240 pairs of symbols and 9 more were discovered in the Mesagne Hoard.&nbsp;&nbsp; In almost all cases, there&#039;s only one set of dies for each pair of symbols (with my coin, the reverse symbol is largely off-flan, to the left - I included a pic of the symbols under the coin pics).</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was apparently part of the Mesagne Hoard, of about 5,940 denarii, found around 1980 - see ANSMN vol. 29 (1984), pp. 103-134) or read it online -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43573679?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3A72d64db3e5381b0d9d05cd8cd3665f92&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43573679?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3A72d64db3e5381b0d9d05cd8cd3665f92&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43573679?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior:72d64db3e5381b0d9d05cd8cd3665f92&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Mesagne Hoard has been important in re-dating some of the later Republican coins, including this one, as it was discovered after Crawford&#039;s 1974 work &quot;Roman Republican Coinage&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; 138 coins of this type were found in the hoard (believed to have been deposited in or around 58 BC) and all were in mint condition like this one.&nbsp;&nbsp; Hersh &amp; Walker, authors of the above article, therefore decided that the coin was most likely minted in 59 BC, rather than Crawford&#039;s date of 64 BC.&nbsp;&nbsp; Harlan, writing more recently, prefers 62 BC - it fits his moneyer timescale better and he points out that several other issues were also found in virtually mint condition in the hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin isn&#039;t listed in the above-mentioned article (but that doesn&#039;t list everything).</p><p><br /></p><p>Cr. 412/1.&nbsp;&nbsp; 3,90g, 18mm, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Cr412_1_Obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Cr412_1_Rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5tavNs-u-7pNkcjDq9_8W1-f3m2Dc12VJ11XMvSwh6gZuJfgOrDBeDps2xYcK9ieaxy9Dtl8FHlm_dPs1fZrJ6iSpRohq031gkQ036KqSobcwxSzpIjZychu_4bcP1XyYZFlztBVtll8MIsygfqSJdAdC7AiIfu_idcmlGneLa3C1haW6rw0UgM35KCYsuylfFMSVH1vkkPZ1xqGX-yry3Te2s-dgxuCW8ZXBD0_d6XVSyEGrMqoRcCj4QE1KfKhgbxuVSa0ute2gqS8_4etBT7VwRjNerjac9VXmdWwMbee1vkD9kkHcQ6JMUs7AVbuoTK1ork68_tzKsKjOrqFVfNSASg6oxge06LjtSRKgiSi9gtcNt5w7SvrsN1mneDXZoQlWKztuze7AZZmnsgZA7hnBr282w8yi9nhttGOejXG6_1-4zc7K8JZGYW5oQu_TOucz4cdfw3U1pFpxOFTMxkU57OyJII4WFk_m3KC336l2uxprqrksVZ-u_TXgxshXqB1zj74OK4MiGkkl9CTnSn-gAQGTkVY20rWrsgnuJQs_rFKH_Ng-QZZDTkFKKoor2gNZoJQoJvp9zjuJmB13uSjVj60zIIlkGwO0on1hS9DzrNlvuw7WEUTeZzFTJ8KqmMCS6I5U_-oxy5CQu255aUzPVs69avJ=w547-h422-no" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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