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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24762108, member: 26430&quot;]I don&#039;t think I have a Juno Capriotina (I love the goat bigas!) but I have Juno Sospita with the goat-skin headdress. (Sometimes I get confused by different epithets!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Twice (once incuse) on this brockage:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thoria-brockage-thorius-balbus-incuse-ex-aureo-calico-alba-longa-vol-ii-339-1398-jpg.1582961/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Roman Republic. L. Thorius Balbus, c. 105 BC. AR Denarius</b> (19 mm, 3.87 g, 12 h).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> I•S•M•R Head of Juno Sospita to right, wearing goat-skin headdress.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev.</b> Incuse of obverse.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Refs:</b> Cf. Babelon (Thoria) 1, Crawford 316/1, RBW 1168 and Sydenham 598.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov: </b>Ex Colleción Alba Longa (J. F. Molina), vol. II, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6486578" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6486578" rel="nofollow">Aureo y Calicó 339 (14 Nov 2019), Lot 1398</a>; Aureo 89 (4 Mar 1998), Lot 1345; ANE-Calicó (15 Dec 1981), Lot 508. Images of this coin included twice in <a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_misc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_misc" rel="nofollow">ANS RRDP &quot;Schaefer Binder&quot; No. 22, p. 2</a> (1981 &amp; 1998 sales).</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here, on the reverse of a Procilius Denarius, hurling a spear:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1583999[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>L. Procilius AR Denarius</b> (3.76 g), Rome, 80 CE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Laureate head of Jupiter r.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: Juno Sospita standing right w/ shield &amp; spear, snake to right (mostly off flan). </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: Crawfor 379/1; Syd. 771</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Kuenker, ex Niederrheinischen Privatsammlung (“Lower Rhine Collection,” Ton Nuij Coll., formed c. 1970-2010s).</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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