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<p>[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4609228, member: 93702"]Happy to grab a real bargain version of this extremely historical type.. far from the best you will see - but the story behind this coin is pretty amazing. Severed head and all....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141640[/ATTACH]</p><p>2.61g</p><p>Helmeted head of Roma right "EX SC" before "ROMA X" behind</p><p>Horseman galloping left holding a sword and the head of a barbarian "Q" and "M SERGI" below "SILVS" in exergue.</p><p>Sergia 1a</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>**(below grabbed from another thread on CoinTalk discussing this type)**</i></p><p><br /></p><p> <b>I'm going to let Pliny explain this one:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody - at least in my opinion - can rightly rank any man above Marcus Sergius, although his great-grandson Catiline shames his name. In his second campaign Sergius lost his right hand. In two campaigns he was wounded twenty-three times, with the result that he had no use in either hand or either foot: only his spirit remained intact. Although disabled, Sergius served in many subsequent campaigns. He was twice captured by Hannibal - no ordinary foe- from whom twice he escaped, although kept in chains and shackles every day for twenty months. He fought four times with only his left hand, while two horses he was riding were stabbed beneath him.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had a right hand made of iron for him and, going into battle with this bound to his arm, raised the siege of Cremona, saved Placentia and captured twelve enemy camps in Gaul - all of which exploits were confirmed by the speech he made as praetor when his colleagues tried to debar him as infirm from the sacrifices. What piles of wreaths he would have amassed in the face of a different enemy!</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Natural History, </i>Book 7 Chapter 28[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4609228, member: 93702"]Happy to grab a real bargain version of this extremely historical type.. far from the best you will see - but the story behind this coin is pretty amazing. Severed head and all.... [ATTACH=full]1141640[/ATTACH] 2.61g Helmeted head of Roma right "EX SC" before "ROMA X" behind Horseman galloping left holding a sword and the head of a barbarian "Q" and "M SERGI" below "SILVS" in exergue. Sergia 1a [I]**(below grabbed from another thread on CoinTalk discussing this type)**[/I] [B]I'm going to let Pliny explain this one:[/B] Nobody - at least in my opinion - can rightly rank any man above Marcus Sergius, although his great-grandson Catiline shames his name. In his second campaign Sergius lost his right hand. In two campaigns he was wounded twenty-three times, with the result that he had no use in either hand or either foot: only his spirit remained intact. Although disabled, Sergius served in many subsequent campaigns. He was twice captured by Hannibal - no ordinary foe- from whom twice he escaped, although kept in chains and shackles every day for twenty months. He fought four times with only his left hand, while two horses he was riding were stabbed beneath him. He had a right hand made of iron for him and, going into battle with this bound to his arm, raised the siege of Cremona, saved Placentia and captured twelve enemy camps in Gaul - all of which exploits were confirmed by the speech he made as praetor when his colleagues tried to debar him as infirm from the sacrifices. What piles of wreaths he would have amassed in the face of a different enemy! [I] Natural History, [/I]Book 7 Chapter 28[/QUOTE]
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