How many Wolf and Twins coins do you have?

I just have the Constantine, different mints. Want to add others, eventually.

This has a more chocolate color in hand

Then slightly more wear

 

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Great coins everyone. I have one or two Constantinian era but no pictures right now.

This one is worn but it was cheap and I like the little A engraved on it.

 

Just the one for me right now but I hope to change that.

 

Nice selection of coins, everybody. I have a very worn She Wolf & Twins denarius of Domitian - I'm sure there're better ones out there:

 

it your brass thingy an ancient artifact?!?.. regardless, it is kool!

 

i have several, but most are of Constantine's re-dedication of Rome.

 

Unfortunately, not ancient... just cool!

 

For big wolves, try Provincials:
Macrinus Laodicea AE29


Severus Alexander Antioch AE33


Maximinus Ninica Claudiopolis AE31

 

WOLF AND TWINS in an Ostia sculpture. Actually, I think this is a cast copy, with the original in the Ostian Museum or perhaps the Museo Nazionale near the Termini station.

 

Here's a slide I show when I teach the Aeneid, with me next to the famous Etruscan she-wolf in the Capitoline Museum, about 15 years and 10 pounds ago. The students enjoy the careful labeling of the American tourist in his natural habitat. The Etruscan wolf is ancient; the nursing infants were added later, perhaps 17th or 18th c.

 

LOL, looks like what my wife would do to the photo! LOL

 

Interesting! I didn't realize that.

Stupid question: why is the wolf always shown standing while nursing the infants? That seems so unnatural. Is it part of the lore? I guess a wolf nursing a human isn't exactly natural to begin with but it makes the scene all the more weird to me.

 

Good question. I wondered if the Etruscan statue was found early in Rome's history and became the prototype of the "standing wolf" image. But after reading up on this statue, it seems that even the wolf may not be ancient, so the mystery continues:

"But new laboratory analysis suggests that the She-wolf is not ancient and was made in the Middle Ages, specifically the twelfth century C.E. Questions about the authenticity of the She-wolf were first raised when the statue was restored in the late 1990s. At that time, conservators realized that the casting technique used to make it is not the same as the hollow casting technique used on other large-scale bronze sculptures. Instead of using multiple molds, as described above, the She-wolf is made as a single piece. Proponents of this view argue that the wolf is more similar stylistically to medieval bronzes. Proponents of the Etruscan date claim that the few surviving Etruscan large-scale bronze statues are stylistically similar to the She-wolf." -- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanit...ns/roman/roman-republic/a/capitoline-she-wolf

 

Ah... more mystery revolving around the Etrurians! Love it! They even made Scarabs like the Egyptians. I am surprised by their mysterious origins they don't call them Aliens like they do for the Egyptians...

 

Nice coins everyone. I've been looking for a decent Domitian denarius with Wolf and twins for a long time but they all seem to be quite worn. Here's what I do have:



Helmeted head of Roma right, X below chin, jug behind

FOSTLVS SEX POM
ROMA in Ex.
She-wolf standing rightsuckling the twins Romulus and Remus, fig tree in background with three birds, the shepherd Faustulus standing right behind

Rome 137 BC
Sear 112
CRR 461



Roma AE Commemorative
VRBS ROMA
bust of Roma left, wearing helmet with plume, and imperial mantle

She-wold standing left, suckling twins Romulus and Remus, mintmark gamma SIS in ex.
RIC VII Siscia 222.
Siscia mint
330-333 AD



VRBS ROMA
Bust of Roma left, wearing helmet with plume, and imperial mantle

She-wold standing left, suckling twins Romulus and Remus, two stars above;
CONSe. in exergue.

2.38g

Arles mint; 2nd officina, 330-333 AD

RIC VII 62

 

Beautiful Lupa coins, Cucumbor!