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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3219063, member: 84744"]Great coin, [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]!  And with a special connection to your birthplace, even better.  I commented on this coin in your original thread on it, so I won't add anything here. But I do feel compelled to add some comments on [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER]'s awesome coin.  I suspect voters are not giving it enough credit... it's simply fantastic!  I would even suggest that it is the most desirable possible die clash in the entire Roman series, for a reason Q didn't mention. The fact that "AMOR" was a palindrome of "ROMA" was apparently quite an important fact to the ancient Romans, documented in many places (e.g. the Aeneid where an oracle tells Aeneas to go to the land of his "amor", meaning Roma, and multiple palindromic inscriptions e.g. "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor").  In some accounts it is even the secret name of the city, which (if spoken) reveals the identity of its protective deity and annuls that protection, opening the city to attack.  (In this case, the protective deity would be Venus.)  Allegedly, Sulla once executed a tribune, Quintus Valerius Soranus, for uttering the secret name. So because of the palindrome, an ancient possessor of Q's coin would undoubtedly place great value on it, especially given that it occurs on an issue commemorating the city itself.  It would have been seen as having a mystical, even magical significance.  In addition it is surely extraordinarily rare.  I for one would pay way more than Q did to get this coin!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Well done, sir!![/QUOTE]

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