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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3242593, member: 99456&quot;]You might like this site which was referenced in another thread.</p><p><a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/_rev/index1i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/_rev/index1i.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/_rev/index1i.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I particularly like the &quot;plowing&quot; scene on this coin - and this specific coin blows my mind:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]849044[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Roman Republican Silver Denarius</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Weight</b>: 3.85g&nbsp; Diameter: 19mm</font></p><p><font size="4">Obverse: Bust of Ceres right, wreathed in grain; CAPIT•LXXXXVIII behind, symbol before</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Reverse</b>: Ploughman driving two oxen left; LXXXXVIII above; C•MARI•C•F over S•C in exergue </font></p><p><br /></p><p>It comes with a story that might align well with your interest in &quot;action scenes&quot; from Michael Harlan&#039;s book &quot;Roman Republican Moneyer&#039;s and their coins 81BCE-64BCE&quot;.&nbsp; I won&#039;t tell the whole story of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla" rel="nofollow">Sulla</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Lucretius_Ofella" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Lucretius_Ofella" rel="nofollow">Quintus Lucretius Ofella</a>, his loyal legate - but here is short teaser :</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>&quot;In the largest sense, the bucolic theme of this coins symbolized the promise Sulla had made to the people when he said that he would bring about the most beneficial changes if they would obey him....during the course of the year in which the coin first circulated, and incident occurred that would offer the populace a whole new light in which to interpret the reverse design...&quot;</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]849043[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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