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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 24619560, member: 15481&quot;]Nice one! A common, but still very interesting issue.</p><p>Here&#039;s mine, with text:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/a1016baa499045669a3729f57b213ce4/748e9bd8d0714801a33edaa2d970a782.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obverse: </b>M·FOVRI·L·F: Laureate head of Janus, around, inscription. Border of dots.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Reverse: </b>ROMA: Roma standing left, holding sceptre in left hand and crowing trophy with right hand; above, star; the trophy is surmounted by a helmet in the form of a boar&#039;s head and flanked by a carnyx and shield on each side. Border of dots.</font></p><p><u>History</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Marus Furius Philus was a Roman moneyer, or an individual tasked with minting government approved money during the republic. </p><p><br /></p><p>The gens Furia, originally Fusia, was one of the most ancient and noble patrician houses at Rome. Its members held the highest offices of the State during the period of the Roman Republic. The first of the Furii to attain the consulship was Sextus Furius Medullinus in 488 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin marks a radical departure from the typical Roman Republican coinage that almost always featured the head of Roma on the obverse. Janus graces the obverse of this coin, and, after this point, it becomes more and more common to put different images on the obverse of Roman coinage. Janus was not foreign to Republican coinage though he typically fronted the Roman <i>as</i>, not the <i>denarius</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has Roma crowning a statue with two shields - celebrating the victory of Domitius Ahenobarbus and Q. Fabius Maximus (Allobrogicus) over the Allobroges and Arveni in Gaul, 121 BCE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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