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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2951054, member: 78411&quot;]Always happy to show this one off:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]720888[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (63mm, 266.40 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Head of bearded Janus; – (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; | (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Thurlow &amp; Vecchi 51; Haeberlin pl. 10, 1-16, 4; HN Italy 337; Sydenham 71; Kestner 111-5; BMCRR Rome (Aes Grave) 1-16. Ex. CNG eAuction 163, lot 211 (2007); Ex. Triton XVI, lot 753 (2013); Ex. CNG Coin Shop (2013).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve mentioned this elsewhere before, but anyone interested in the mythology of Janus should read this essay:&nbsp; Rabun Taylor, &quot;Watching the Skies:Janus, Auspication, and the Shrine in the RomanForum&quot; in <i>Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome</i>, Vol. 45 (2000), pp. 1-40. Available through JSTOR and maybe elsewhere.&nbsp; I have a copy if anyone wants me to send it along, though it will have to wait until after the holiday break. I really can&#039;t recommend this essay highly enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting take on the prow series, which I find convincing, comes from Antonio Morello, summarized here by Andrew McCabe: <a href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Corvus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Corvus.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Corvus.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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