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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 25693509, member: 10613"]and I just won another anniversary gift from the "death" workshop...well, actually a way to avoid the "death workshop"</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is not in RIC for this combination of workshop letters. It has ΔE versus the normal Θ for workshop 9. Sometimes ΔE was used for workshop 9, instead of Θ, as some people at the time considered Θ the symbol of death because theta was the first letter of the Greek word for the personification of death- Thanatos</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1642815[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">VRBS ROMA</font></p><p><font size="4">A.D. 330- 333</font></p><p><font size="4">Æ nummus 18mm 2.5g</font></p><p><font size="4">VRBS ROMA; Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak.</font></p><p><font size="4">Rev. She-wolf left with twins (Romulus and Remus); above, two stars.</font></p><p><font size="4">In ex. SMANTΔE</font></p><p><font size="4">RIC VII Antioch --</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">here is the normal workshop</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1642816[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">VRBS ROMA</font></p><p><font size="3">A.D. 335- 337</font></p><p><font size="3">17mm 2.8gm</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv. VRBS ROMA [City of Rome] Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev. She-wolf left with twins (Romulus and Remus); above, two stars.</font></p><p><font size="3">In ex. SMANΘ</font></p><p><font size="3">RIC VII Antioch 91</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 25693509, member: 10613"]and I just won another anniversary gift from the "death" workshop...well, actually a way to avoid the "death workshop" This coin is not in RIC for this combination of workshop letters. It has ΔE versus the normal Θ for workshop 9. Sometimes ΔE was used for workshop 9, instead of Θ, as some people at the time considered Θ the symbol of death because theta was the first letter of the Greek word for the personification of death- Thanatos [ATTACH=full]1642815[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4]VRBS ROMA A.D. 330- 333 Æ nummus 18mm 2.5g VRBS ROMA; Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak. Rev. She-wolf left with twins (Romulus and Remus); above, two stars. In ex. SMANTΔE RIC VII Antioch -- here is the normal workshop [ATTACH=full]1642816[/ATTACH] [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]VRBS ROMA A.D. 335- 337 17mm 2.8gm Obv. VRBS ROMA [City of Rome] Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak. Rev. She-wolf left with twins (Romulus and Remus); above, two stars. In ex. SMANΘ RIC VII Antioch 91[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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