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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3703706, member: 44132&quot;]I received this coin over the weekend with a representation of the Dei Penates.&nbsp; I spent a lot of time attempting to get a good image, but in the end I used my new Samsung S10 (great camera lens).&nbsp; I tried various lighting techniques, but the best images were taken in a shady area outside.&nbsp; These images are truest to color in hand whereas using my normal camera and various indoor lighting seemed to produce brownish images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the Die Penates is what drew my attention to the coin, but the representation of the hog is what sealed my desire to be the custodian of this coin.&nbsp; What a mean looking, long snouted pig!&nbsp; That eye just looks evil.</p><p><br /></p><p>In ancient Roman religion, the Di Penates or Penates were among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals. When the family had a meal, they threw a bit into the fire on the hearth for the Penates. They were thus associated with Vesta, the Lares, and the Genius of the paterfamilias in the &quot;little universe&quot; of the domus.&nbsp; Like other domestic deities, the Penates had a public counterpart.&nbsp; The Penates of Rome (Penates Publici Populi Romani) had a temple on the Velia near the Palatine.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Aeneis_3_147.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas" rel="nofollow">Aeneas</a> and the Penates, from a 4th-century manuscript</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]992827[/ATTACH] </p><p>C. SULPICIUS C.f. GALBA</p><p>AR Serrate Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE: Conjoined laureate heads of the Dei Penates left</p><p>REVERSE: Two soldiers swearing oath over a sow; F above; C SVLPICI C F in ex</p><p>Struck at Rome, 106 BC</p><p>3.8g, 19mm</p><p>Cr312/1; Syd 572; Sulpicia 1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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