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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8310656, member: 110350&quot;]Philip I&#039;s antoninianus depicting the wolf and twins, one of the series issued for Rome&#039;s 1000th anniversary in AD 248:</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I AR Antoninianus, 248 AD, Rome Mint, 2nd Officina. Obv. Radiate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP PHILIPPVS AVG/ Rev. She-wolf standing left, suckling twins Romulus and Remus, SAECVLARES AVGG; II in exergue.&nbsp; RIC IV-3 15, RSC IV 178, Sear RCV III 8957 (ill.). 22.75 mm., 4.72 g.&nbsp; (<i>Games commemorating 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome</i>.)&nbsp; <i>Ex. Madroosi Collection (Joe Blazick)</i>.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/philip-i-wolf-jpg-version-jpg.1411242/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple more:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Anonymous AR Denarius, 115-114 BCE.&nbsp; Obv. Head of Roma right wearing winged Corinthian helmet; below, ROMA; behind, X [<i>despite earlier change from 10 to 16 asses in value</i>] / Rev. Roma, wearing Corinthian helmet, seated right on pile of shields, holding spear in left hand; helmet on ground between pile of&nbsp; shields and her right foot; before her, she-wolf right, suckling twins Romulus and Remus; on either side, birds flying. Crawford 287/1, RSC I 176 (ill.), Sear RCV I 164 (ill.). 20 mm., 3.07 g. <i>Ex. Silbury Coins, UK, Jan. 3, 2019.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/anonymous-denarius-roma-seated-combined-image-1-jpg.1411241/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I, Billon reduced Centenionalis, Trier Mint 330-331 AD. Obv. VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma left/ Rev. She-wolf stg. left suckling twins (Romulus &amp; Remus), 2 stars above; TRP• [Trier, First officina] in exergue. RIC VII 529, Sear RCV IV 16487. 17 mm., 2.4 g. (<i>Found by metal detecting in Wiltshire, England, 2014</i>).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/combined-constantine-i-vrbs-roma-jpg.1411243/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s the coin traditionally identified as portraying one of the Catanaean Brothers, which I argued at length actually portrays Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the ruins of Troy:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, M. Herennius, AR Denarius, Rome mint, 108-107 BC. Obv. Diademed head of Pietas right, wearing single drop earring and pearl necklace, PIETAS (TA ligate) downward to left / Rev. Naked youth (one of the Catanaean brothers, Amphinomous or Anapias) running right and carrying his father on his shoulder to escape from erupting Mt. Etna, <i>or</i> Aeneas carrying his father Anchises to escape from defeated Troy, with his father looking back (towards Mt. Etna or Troy) and raising his right hand; M • HERENNI (HE ligate) downward to left, Control-mark • above C in lower right field.* Crawford 308/1b, RSC I Herennia 1a, Sear RCV I 185 (ill.), BMCRR 1258-1285 [No. 1261 has same control-mark], Sydenham 567a. RBW Collection 1149. 19mm, 4.0g, 7h. <i>Purchased at JAZ Numismatics Auction # 181, Lot 6, April 2021; ex. Frederick B. Shore; ex. Stack’s Public Auction Sale, “A Collection of Ancient Roman Coins,” June 14-15, 1971, Lot 127, at p. 16</i> [not illustrated in plates] (see catalog at <a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&amp;AuctionId=516472#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&amp;AuctionId=516472#" rel="nofollow">https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&amp;AuctionId=516472#</a>search).** [Footnotes omitted]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/m-herennius-dealers-photo-cropped-jpg.1305103/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886</a> for my argument.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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