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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24746657, member: 26430&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><b><font size="6">HAPPY FTR FRIDAY!</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><b>Anyone have any new FEL TEMP REPARATIOs to share since June of 2021? (Or just not posted above.)</b></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="5">Don&#039;t feel constrained to Fallen Horsemen if you&#039;ve run out of those -- share another FTR!</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve added a few interesting Fallen Horsemen since the last &quot;FEL TEMP Friday&quot; (over 2 years ago).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since my first post was about an interesting shield decoration, I&#039;ll start with another.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>My most recent addition to my Fallen Horseman collection.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Besides the shield, I also like the globe-in-hand portrait with rosette-diadem (similar to Thessalonica). I previously had some small ones from Rome mint, but this is my first big one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1583014[/ATTACH]</p><p>RIC 174. 25mm (max), 4.6g, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same interesting &quot;starburst&quot; design appears on Rome mint specimens above <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/#post-6446431" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/#post-6446431">from Doug Smith</a> and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/page-3#post-7699931" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/page-3#post-7699931">the one from</a> [USER=13719]@randygeki[/USER] (who has a fantastic collection of decorated shields on FH&#039;s).</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the exact same shield pattern appears on most or all of Rome&#039;s “Large AE2” dies, from all the different workshops. (See, e.g., <a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.rom.174" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.rom.174" rel="nofollow">RIC 174</a> &amp; <a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.rom.176" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.8.rom.176" rel="nofollow">RIC 176</a>.) So it must have been a very deliberate part of the design. I wonder if a specific legion was being honored by representing its shield decoration? (Reportedly, specific legions used specific shield patterns, at least later in the 4th century. See the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/page-2#post-6448342" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fel-temp-friday-a-fallen-horseman-thread.375587/page-2#post-6448342">post above by ancientcoinhunter</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Another addition that&#039;s much more interesting than its condition would suggest.</b> (Need a better photo, sorry.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1583016[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That one is from the Amiens/Ambianum mint. It brings me to 14 of 15 mints that issued Fallen Horsemen: </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>Alexandria, Amiens, Antioch, Aquileia, Arles, Constantinople, Cyzicus, Heraclea, Lugdunum, Nicomedia, Rome, Sirmium, Siscia, </i>and<i> Thessalonica</i>.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I need only Trier (Treves/Treveri), easily the hardest to find. (AMB is 2nd hardest.)</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s for the &quot;starter mint set.&quot; I&#039;m not even close to the &quot;full mint set&quot; (one from each mint, for each ruler, in each size!) like Doug&#039;s (it looks to me like <a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/feltemps.htm" rel="nofollow">Helvetica&#039;s online collection was very close at last update</a>, but one of the Amiens looks like Antioch): <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Two more new-ish (past 2 years) Fallen Horsemen from Western mints</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arles, with a less elaborately decorated shield:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1583017[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And Lugdunum (Lyons) with interesting style:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1583018[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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