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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8085471, member: 115909&quot;]Today I won this denarius of Julia Donna and it’s my first denarius in MS condition. ^_^.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love that it has the Palladium on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Greek &amp; Roman mythology the Palladium was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend. A wooden statue (xoanon) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the future site of Rome by Aeneas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rome possessed an object regarded as the actual Palladium for several centuries; it was in the care of the Vestal Virgins nearly all this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404719[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404718[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julia Domna (AD 193-217). AR denarius (19mm, 3.07 gm, 6h). NGC MS 4/5 - 4/5.</b> Rome, AD 211-217. IVLIA PIA-FELIX AVG, draped bust of Julia Domna right, seen from front, wearing helmet-like wig of plaits with large chignon at back of head, a single lock of her own hair across cheek / VE-S-TA, Vesta standing facing, veiled head left, palladium in right hand, scepter in left. RIC IV.I (Caracalla) 390. Lustrous toned flan.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Ed&#039;s Treasures Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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