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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3520465, member: 88829&quot;]Ah, gee Martin, I dunno, that pretty much sums up my whole collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I just added an item that fits.&nbsp; I sold off most of my Roman Republican coins nearly 20 years ago and mostly stopped buying them.&nbsp; However, this item came up for sale at about the same time as a Bible Class I attend began a study of the Easter pericopes from the book of Revelation.&nbsp; In chapter one the writer tells of an image in a vision he had which featured a figure holding seven stars in his hand (seven churches of Roman Asia).&nbsp; Having later coins with a seven-stars motif, and a side interest in coins with astral imagery, I started asking what Roman seven-star iconography on coins existed when that image was set down by the Scripture writer at the end of the first century AD (probably reign of Domitian).&nbsp; This coin came to mind and it just happened to be offered right then at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]934763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>L. Lucretius Trio (ca. 74 BC).</b></p><p>Rome. Radiate head of Sol right /</p><p>TRIO / L•LVCRETI, crescent moon surrounded by seven stars.</p><p>Crawford 390/1. Sydenham 783. Lucretia 2.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, one more for the pile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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