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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2280086, member: 76194&quot;]<b>I&#039;m going to give my educated guess as to why that donkey/ass appears behind Rome</b>. When this coin was minted, the third Punic War had ended only a few months before. As you know, the horse was an important symbol for Carthage. It even appears in just about all of their coins. I think the person who designed this coin was alluding to the recent victory of Rome over Carthage, and making fun of their recently defeated enemy.&nbsp; What better way to humiliate the enemy and celebrate victory than to paint the mighty Carthaginian horse as a silly looking wild ass facing backwards and away from the mighty Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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