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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24901748, member: 26430&quot;]Are we still on &quot;favorite reverse&quot;? </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of this Republican Quinarius (101 BCE) is the first depiction of a bound captive and trophy together on any coin (or any artwork at all, for that matter). Took me several years to find just the right one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1600330[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>C. Fundanius AR</b> <b>Quinarius </b>(14mm, 1.67g), Rome, 101 BCE. </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Head of Jupiter laureate, right. Control mark, left: R (?).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: C•FVNDA. Victory crowning trophy, to which is bound a kneeling captive (King Teutobodus?). Q below.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: Crawford 326/2; <a href="https://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-326.2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-326.2" rel="nofollow">CRRO</a>. </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Ex <i>Sammlung </i>R.L., formed over three generations, c 1890s-2010 (Jacquier 51,&nbsp; Lot 185 ).</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b><font size="6">NEXT:</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><font size="6">Another small silver coin</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">or, if you prefer numismatic German, <i>eine Kleinsilbermünze</i></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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