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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3928664, member: 75937&quot;]With less than a week to go until Saturnalia, I thought I&#039;d post a coin featuring Saturn. Io Saturnalia to all! Let&#039;s see your coins depicting the god!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/caravaggio-saturnus-jpg.714509/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&quot;Saturnus,&quot; from a set of eight plates by Goltzius. After the monochrome paintings by Polidoro for the courtyard wall in the quarter of St. Paul&#039;s convent, on the Quirinal at Rome, now called Monte Cavallo.</p><p>Dutch, 1592</p><p>Printed engraving on paper</p><p>355 mm x 212 mm</p><p>British Museum Collection</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gallienus-aeternitas-avg-saturn-antoninianus-antioch-jpg.1028482/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gallienus, AD 253-268.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 4.26 g, 18.8 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Antioch, 15th emission, AD 266-268.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS AVG, Saturn standing right, holding harpa in left hand; PXV in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 606; Göbl 1662i; Cohen 44; RCV 10170.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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