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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1895035, member: 42773&quot;]Nice coins, guys. The grazing horse type (and its variations) caught my eye because the design is so obviously a celebration of pastoralism, which seems so very un-Roman compared to the sea of coins that depict gods and goddesses and various images of military prowess.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grazing horse predates Roman influence in Troas - you find it on the earliest civic issues dating to the 3rd-century BC, paired with busts of Apollo and Tyche, and it didn&#039;t lose its popularity even after more traditional Roman provincial types were introduced. I see it on coins of Commodus, Caracalla, Elagabalus, Julia Paula, Severus Alexander, Julia Mamaea, Maximinus I, Maximus, Valerian I, Gallienus, and Valerian II. There&#039;s probably more.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the most curious and (to me) astonishing reverse types out of Troas is the scene that combines military and pastoral themes. Here you have a soldier and probably an ordinary citizen seated at table, perhaps engaged in conversation over some wine, while a shepherd works in the background. There&#039;s no ostentatious display of...well, anything. Everybody is just chilling out.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not my coin. It can be found at Wildwinds.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/troas/alexandreia/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/troas/alexandreia/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/troas/alexandreia/t.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus AE 22mm of Alexandria Troas.</p><p><i>Obv.</i>: IMP VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, laureate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right.</p><p><i>Rev.</i>: COL AVG, TROAD in exergue, two beardless male figures facing each other, the one to the right holding out three arrows in his right hand &amp; and bow in left; the other rests his right hand on his seat; between the two, upper part of bearded herdsman facing, holding pedum.</p><p>Reference: Bellinger A402</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]323261[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Steve, by April Romans, I just mean that I&#039;m going to post whatever Romans I collect during the month of April in this thread, rather than create a bunch of separate ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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