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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8278871, member: 26430&quot;]How about a &quot;Mars AND/OR Ares&quot;? This one is usually called Ares (or Ares/Mars), I assume because the Bretti (far S. Italy) were &quot;Hellenized&quot; and the legend is in Greek (though they were Oscan speakers), but they had also long been allies of Rome (reluctantly, one might say). They&#039;d switched sides to Hannibal briefly, but were now back in Roman control. (Depending whose dating you accept.) Sometimes it&#039;s called an AE Didrachm (wartime, no AR), sometimes an AE Reduced Sextans on the Roman system.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin for which Romanized users presumably saw Mars, the Hellenized Ares. (What did the Oscan-speakers call him?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, the field mark is unpublished as far as I can tell (and no sale records I can find). CNG called it &quot;uncertain symbol (lyre?)&quot; but it&#039;s clearly a plow.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex-<a href="https://archive.org/details/miguelmunozcolle1981supe/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/miguelmunozcolle1981supe/" rel="nofollow">Miguel Muñoz Collection</a> (Part Three), Robert Bartlett Collection, and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8446747" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8446747" rel="nofollow">ANS</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just in case, here&#039;s a truly Marsy-Mars (consigned it in 2013 to RCA-Smits/Hochrein but unsold):</p><p>[ATTACH]1461914[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NEXT: STRADDLING TWO CULTURES </b>(any two, in any way, artistic, linguistic, religious, economic...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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