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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2977427, member: 44316&quot;]I can show the first Livy book coin type and the Plutarch book coin type[ATTACH=full]731897[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sex. Pompeius, 137 BC.</p><p>She-wolf suckling twins Romulus and Remus, fig tree in background, with birds and shepherd Faustulus.</p><p>Crawford 235/1. Sear 112.</p><p>There is too much going on in this reverse to fit it on the usual flan. The detail on the cover of the book shown by [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] is quite unusual. Finding one sharper than this should be easy. Finding one with all the legend on the flan is almost impossible. Even Crawford&#039;s plate coin is crowded.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]731899[/ATTACH] </p><p>M . Junius Brutus, 54 BC. Denarius.</p><p>LIBERTAS</p><p>His ancestor, L. Junius Brutus, consul 509 BC, walking between two lictors preceded by an accensus.</p><p>Crawford 433/1. Sear 397.</p><p>This is from is early coinage as moneyer, not from his later coinage after the assassination of Julius Caesar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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