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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 21250828, member: 99456&quot;]Love the Sulpicius Galba, [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER]. Crawford makes the call against &quot;A. Rubino&quot; that &quot;there is no trace of the portrayal of a foedus&quot; and that the reverse of this coin is the miracle of the sow on the reverse, observed by the same Penates. (Both associated with Lavinium).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the words of Virgil describing how Aeneas will recognize the location where he builds the city of Lavinium, named for his wife Lavinia:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><blockquote><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Here are signs for you to keep in mind:</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>When in anxiety by a stream apart</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Beneath shore oaks you find a giant sow,</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Snow-white, reclining there, suckling a litter</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Of thirty snow-white young: that place will be</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>our haven after toil, site of your town.</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>And have no fear of table-biting times;</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>The fates will find a way for you; Apollo</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Will be at hand when called.</i></font></p></blockquote>-Aeneid, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid0000virg_j4g3/page/78/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid0000virg_j4g3/page/78/mode/2up" rel="nofollow"><u>p79-80 lines 388-396</u></a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>My coin of this type posted here with notes:</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/new-beginnings-ancient-symbols" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/new-beginnings-ancient-symbols" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/new-beginnings-ancient-symbols</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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