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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8256115, member: 110350&quot;]Since it&#039;s the <i>Coin</i> theme game, not the Astronomy game, here&#039;s an actual coin with Saturn to satisfy [USER=79017]@Andres2[/USER]&#039;s prompt:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, M. Nonius Sufenas*, AR Denarius, 59 BCE (or 57 BCE according to Hersh and Walker &amp; Harlan), Rome Mint. Obv. Bearded head of Saturn right, with long hair; behind head, <i>harpa</i> with conical stone (baetyl)** beneath it* and S•C upwards above it; before, SVFENAS downwards / Rev. Roma seated left on pile of shields, holding scepter in right hand and sword in left hand; behind, Victory left, crowning Roma with wreath and holding palm-branch extending behind her over right shoulder; around to left from 4:00, PR•L• - V• - P•F; in exergue, SEX•NONI [<i>The two parts of the reverse legend, together, stand for Sex. Noni[us] pr[aetor] L[udi] V[ictoriae] p[rimus] f[ecit</i>, <i>meaning</i> <i>Sex. Nonius, praetor, first held the games of Victory.</i>].*** Crawford 421/1, RSC Nonia1(ill.), BMCRR 3820, Sear RCV I 377 (ill.), Sydenham 885, Harlan, RRM II Ch. 13 at pp. 104-111[Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i> <i>63 BCE - 49 BCE</i> (2d ed. 2015)], RBW Collection 1517. 19 mm., 3.95 g.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/sufenas-denarius-jpg-version-saturn-roma-crowned-with-trophy-jpg.1407625/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>*”The moneyer is doubtless M. Nonius Sufenas, Pr. 55.” Crawford Vol. I p. 445. But see Liv Mariah Yarrow, <i>The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources</i> (2021), Fig. 3.53 at p. 158, suggesting that in the alternative, the moneyer was “perhaps his son.” M. Nonius Sufenas’s “father, Sextus Nonius Sufenas, was Sulla’s nephew, making the moneyer Faustus’ first cousin once removed.” Id. (Faustus was Sulla’s son.) See also Harlan RRM II at pp. 109-110.</p><p><br /></p><p>After his term as moneyer, Nonius Sufenas is mentioned in one of Cicero’s letters to Atticus in July 54 BCE: “Now for the news at Rome. On the fourth of July, Sufenas and Cato were acquitted, Procilius condemned. Clearly our stern judges care not one whit about bribery, the elections, the interregnum, treason, or the whole Republic. Cicero, <i>Ad Atticum</i>, 4.15.4; see Harlan RRM II at pp. 104-106 for a proposed identification of the election which was the subject of the prosecution, namely the consular election of 56 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>** See Harlan RRM II at p. 107: &quot;The head of Saturn clearly identified by the <i>harpa</i> and the conical stone beside his head is on the obverse of the coin. The <i>harpa</i> recalls the castration of his father Uranus that resulted in the birth of Venus and the conical stone recalls that Saturn swallowed a stone thinking it was his infant son Jupiter whom he was trying to keep from growing up to replace him.</p><p>Saturn, always identified by the <i>harpa</i>, appeared five times on Republican denarii.&quot; Harlan suggests (id. pp. 107-108) that, as on other coins on which Saturn appears, his image was intended to signal the moneyer’s past or present position holding office as urban quaestor, and, as such, “responsible for the treasury located in Saturn’s temple.”</p><p><br /></p><p>***This reverse legend, as illustrated by the reverse image, “records the first celebration by an ancestor of the moneyer of the Ludi Victoriae of Sulla.” Crawford Vol. I pp. 445-446.&nbsp; (That ancestor was the aforementioned Sextus Nonius Sufenas, Pr. 81 BCE, the moneyer’s father [or grandfather] and Sulla’s nephew.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, a coin with Jupiter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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