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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3217121, member: 75937&quot;]This new addition to my collection of Venus reverse types arrived in the mail yesterday, courtesy of our very own [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER] . Isn&#039;t she lovely?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]836736[/ATTACH]</p><p>I&#039;m in a classical mood and have been reading the <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Q19RAAAAcAAJ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Q19RAAAAcAAJ" rel="nofollow">Numophylacium Sulzerianum</a></i> and, inspired by its quaint age-of-enlightenment Latin prose, I shall describe the coin as:</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Γ. IVLIA MAMAEA AVG. Caput Iuliae Mamaeae. VENVS GENETRIX. Venus ſtolata ſtans, dextra pomum tenet, ſiniſtra haſta; ad pedibus puerulus.</p><p><br /></p><p>She&#039;ll go nicely with the sestertius version of the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]836737[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Post anything you feel is relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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