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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 7448850, member: 97383"]Ocat, another interesting article with excellent illustrations <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! The RR denarius pictured below gives another view of the "Founding of Rome" myth.[ATTACH=full]1291833[/ATTACH] Sex. Pompeius Fostlus, 137 BC, Rome Mint. AR Denarius: 3.92 gm, 18 mm, 6 h. Obverse: Roma facing right, X under chin, capis in left field. Reverse: She-wolf suckling Romulus & Remus, the shepherd Faustulus is standing in the left field (the man who found the twins on the Tiber River), & a fig tree with birds in the background. Crawford 235/1c; Sydenham 461a. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Summer Bid-Buy Sale 1993, lot 861 (part of 10). I bought this coin in a group of 10 coins for the princely sum of $600.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Over the years I made better than 4 times what this lot cost me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I sold this denarius in CNG 483, lot 375 for $442.50, with an estimate of $150.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]