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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2436101, member: 57495&quot;]Ides, that&#039;s an incredible aureus. A Hadrian travel series aureus would be a dream coin for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have its counterpart in silver, but am out of town at the moment and seem to be unable to upload pics from my phone for some reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do have this from my notes (from wiki I think) about the rabbit:</p><p><br /></p><p>The origin of the word Hispania is much disputed and the evidence for the various speculations are based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances… One theory holds it to be of Punic derivation, from the Phoenician language of colonizing Carthage. Specifically, it may derive from a Punic cognate of Hebrew אי-שפניא</p><p>(i-shfania) meaning &quot;Island of the Hyrax&quot; or &quot;island of the hare&quot; or &quot;island of the rabbit&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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