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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2158871, member: 44132&quot;]Or a coin depicting a Roman myth.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]415378[/ATTACH]</p><p>L. TITURIUS L.F. SABINUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS TITURIA</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Head of Taitus facing right, SABIN behind, palm before</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; Tarpeia buried to her waist in shields, fending off two&nbsp;&nbsp; soldiers about to throw their shields on her; L. TITVRI in exergue</p><p>Struck at Rome 89 BC</p><p>3.2 g, 20 mm</p><p>Cr344/2b; Sydenham 699; Tituria 4</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend tells that while Rome was besieged by the Sabine king Titus Tatius, Tarpeia, daughter of the commander of the citadel, Spurius Tarpeius, approached the Sabine camp and offered them entry to the city in exchange for &quot;what they bore on their left arms&quot;. Greedy for gold, she had meant their bracelets, but instead the Sabines threw their shields—carried on the left arm—upon her, crushing her to death. Her body was then hurled from (or, according to some accounts, buried at) a steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill. The cliff was named the Tarpeian Rock after its victim, and would become known as the place of execution for Rome&#039;s most notorious traitors. The Sabines were however unable to conquer the Forum, its gates miraculously protected by boiling jets of water created by Janus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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