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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 5308976, member: 96898"]This coin would have made my list had it arrived earlier. I consider it my inofficial no. 11. It came from Tauler&Fau, and since Spanish export licenses can take a while at this moment, I didn't expect to have it in hand this year. Yet, it got delivered just after Saturnalia and right in time for Christmas! [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] did a good <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/games-of-sullas-victory.348141/#post-3749972" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/games-of-sullas-victory.348141/#post-3749972">write-up</a> on this somewhat scarcer Roman Republican type a while ago. On the obverse, it features Saturn, the harpa he castrated Uranus with, and the stone he swallowed instead of Jupiter. The reverse, on the other hand, refers to the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae, the games in honor of Sulla's victory, which were first held in 81 BC and organized by a relative of the moneyer. [ATTACH=full]1224055[/ATTACH] Roman Republic, moneyer: M. Nonius Sufenas, AR denarius, 59 BC, Rome mint. Obv: S·C SVFENAS; head of Saturn r.; behind, harpa and conical stone (baetylus). Rev: PR·L·V·P·F; SEX·NONI: Roma seated l. on pile of armour, holding sceptre in r. hand and sword in l. hand; behind, Victory holding palm-branch in l. hand and crowning Roma with r. hand. Ref: RRC 421/1. 19mm, 3.92g. Ex Tauler y Fau, e-auction 69, lot 2150.[/QUOTE]