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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3928679, member: 57495&quot;]Io Saturnalia!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035513[/ATTACH]<b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>Anonymous, Staff &amp; Club Series</p><p>AE Semis. 24.48g, 33.4mm. Etruria, 208 BC. Crawford 106/5.&nbsp; O: Laureate head of Saturn right, S behind.&nbsp; R: Prow right, S and staff above, ROMA below.</p><p><i>Ex Andrew McCabe Collection, who notes that this coin is, &quot;a heavy staff Semis, weighing 24.5 grams on a large flan, the size of an As; this is probably associated with the post-semilibral coinage, struck in the earliest campaigns in Etruria (531)&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>And Kronos, the Greek equivalent of Saturn:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035514[/ATTACH]<b>DOMITIAN</b></p><p>AE18. 4.53g, 18.4mm. CILICIA, Flaviopolis, circa AD 81-96. RPC II 1760; SNG Levante 1531; SNG von Aulock 5558. O: ΔΟΜЄΤΙΑΝΟC ΚΑΙCΑΡ, laureate bust right, with slight drapery. R: ЄΤΟVC ΖΙ ΦΛΑVΙΟΠΟΛЄΙΤωΝ, veiled head of Kronos right, harpa to right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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