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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2388786, member: 76111&quot;]First, really interesting coin, Mikey, in great style.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also learned a new word.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always called it an &quot;aplustre&quot;.&nbsp; Any idea what the difference is or is it the same?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an issue of Cassius with a well detailed aplustre.&nbsp; BTW, the denarius of this issue is more rare than the aureus!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]490504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490505[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG auction note from the aureus:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The final issue of Cassius. This reverse type commemorates the capture of Rhodes by Cassius, who seized booty amounting to eight thousand talents from the public treasury after he had contemptuously spurned the title of king which the terror-stricken Rhodians had offered him. The aplustre was a common symbol of naval superiority, while the floreate endings of its branches allude to the rose, the civic emblem of Rhodes.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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