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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3177704, member: 80804&quot;]You should be aware that the FEL TEMP REPARATIO majorina &amp; fractions series contains many more types than just the propaganda-heavy fallen horseman. You have another common type of the emperor standing in a galley prow holding either a small figure of Victory or a phoenix and a labarum - Victory sits at the helm of the galley, steering.</p><p>Then there&#039;s the &quot;emperor &amp; captive(s)&quot; type which is pretty self-explanatory, although the number of captives is variable as is the posture of the captive(s).</p><p>There is the ever popular &quot;Emperor leading youth from hut&quot; or simply &quot;Hut&quot; type. As above, the emperor, in military garb, and holding a spear point-downwards (sign of the end of a military action) has a small figure by the hand and is leading him out of a crude-looking hut under a tree,</p><p>There are the half-majorinae with Phoenix standing reverses - two main types on which the phoenix stands on either a globe or a rocky mound.</p><p>There are a couple of even less commonly seen FEL TEMP&#039;s usually with the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy.</p><p>Now that list doesn&#039;t come particularly close to enumerating all the sub-types of &quot;FEL TEMP REPARATIO&quot;. Although admittedly the astronomical numbers of surviving coins would point to even a greater universality at one point of the fallen horseman as the only coin type in circulation in the 350&#039;s, FEL TEMP&#039;s in general span a surprisingly wide variety of scenes - although almost all have themes at least related to the military and defense.</p><p>The fallen horseman, it is presumed, was propaganda offered to assuage the fears of those living near the borders who were under a genuine threat of being overrun by Huns or whichever other group of barbarians happened to be &quot;at the gate&quot; this week. The message - &quot;a Roman foot-soldier is easily able to unhorse and kill members of an invading cavalry wave&quot; was, like most political exclamations, not only exaggerated but closer to unadulterated horse-puckey. Roman infantry legions were being literally slaughtered to the last man, ridden-down by &quot;barbarian&quot; cavalry charges in battles like the decisive defeat of Roman forces at Hadrianopolis, not long after the fallen horseman type was retired.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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