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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7871036, member: 99456&quot;][ATTACH=full]1355994[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba, </b>AR serrate denarius, Rome, 106 BC</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Jugate heads of Dei Penates left, DPP before</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Two male figures standing facing one another, each holding a spear and pointing at sow which lies between; L above.</p><p><b>Size: </b>18.5mm, 3.96g</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-312.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-312.1" rel="nofollow">312/1</a>, RSC Sulpicia 1</p><blockquote><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>A temple with an inner sanctuary had been built for the images of the gods which Aeneas had brought with him from the Troad and set up in Lavinium, and the statues had been removed from Lavinium to this sanctuary; but during the following night, although the doors were most carefully closed and the walls of the enclosure and the roof of the temple suffered no injury, the statues changed their position and were found upon their old pedestals. </i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>-<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#67" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#67" rel="nofollow">Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities</a></i></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3"><i> But Cato, in the Origin of the Roman Race instructs us thus: that a sow bore thirty piglets in the place where Lavinium now is, and when Aeneas had decided to establish a city there and was lamenting on account of the sterility of the soil, that in sleep there appeared to him likenesses of household gods encouraging him to persevere in the establishment of the city which he had begun; for, after as many years as were the offspring of that sow, Trojans would move to fertile spots and more fruitful soil and would establish the city of the most famous name in Italy.</i></font></p><p><font size="3">- <a href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/origogentis.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/origogentis.pdf" rel="nofollow">Origo Gentis Romanae, Thomas M. Banchich 2004</a></font></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b><span style="color: #006633">Next:</span> </b></span>another Roman Republic (or Marsic)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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