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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4742470, member: 57495"]The coin may serve as consolation to you, but it is certainly no consolation prize. Awesome addition to the collection! </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not very familiar with the issue, but I see descriptions used by catalogers seem to be split between calling the unarmed combatant a comrade of the Roman about to be slain by the Gaul, or just another enemy soldier being attacked by the Roman horseman. I lean towards the latter; the focus of the armed Gallic soldier seems to be on the horseman, and his sword, while pointed in the direction of the unarmed soldier, is in an awkward position for someone attempting to strike down an enemy. It looks more likely to me that his sword is being held in the pose of someone who was just driven to the ground by the horseman. </p><p><br /></p><p>More RR battle scenes... on M. Sergius Silus's, depicting his ancestor of the same name, one-armed war hero and great grandfather of Catiline, just casually riding about holding the giant severed head of a Gallic soldier.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159197[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC. M. Sergius Silus, quaestor.</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.87g, 18.5mm. Rome mint, AD 116-115. Crawford 286/1. O: Head of Roma right; ROMA and XVI monogram behind; EX S C before. R: Helmeted horseman galloping left, holding sword and severed Gallic head in left hand; Q (for Quaestor) below; M.SERGI, SILVS in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>T. Didius's is probably more of a gladiatorial scene, but the alot of action is packed into the poses of the combatants. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159198[/ATTACH] <b>ROMAN REPUBLIC. T. Didius, moneyer.</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.88g, 19.4mm. Rome mint, 113/2 BC. T. Didius, moneyer. Crawford 294/1; Sydenham 550. O: Helmeted head of Roma right; [XVI monogram below], monogram of ROMA behind. R: Two gladiators fighting, one attacking with a whip, the other defending with a staff (or sword); T•DEIDI in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex Prof Dr Hildebrecht Hommel Collection, acquired from Hirsch, auction 71, 17 March 1971, lot 477</i></p><p>Roma Numismatic Notes : "Babelon suggests that the reverse type refers to the moneyer’s ancestor T. Didius, who was sent to Sicily in 138 BC to quash a slave result that was ultimately the precursor to the first of the three Servile Wars. Crawford disagrees, suggesting that the reverse depicts a scene one would expect to witness at the games T. Didius promised to put on during his time as aedile, making this issue an example of electoral propaganda."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4742470, member: 57495"]The coin may serve as consolation to you, but it is certainly no consolation prize. Awesome addition to the collection! I'm not very familiar with the issue, but I see descriptions used by catalogers seem to be split between calling the unarmed combatant a comrade of the Roman about to be slain by the Gaul, or just another enemy soldier being attacked by the Roman horseman. I lean towards the latter; the focus of the armed Gallic soldier seems to be on the horseman, and his sword, while pointed in the direction of the unarmed soldier, is in an awkward position for someone attempting to strike down an enemy. It looks more likely to me that his sword is being held in the pose of someone who was just driven to the ground by the horseman. More RR battle scenes... on M. Sergius Silus's, depicting his ancestor of the same name, one-armed war hero and great grandfather of Catiline, just casually riding about holding the giant severed head of a Gallic soldier. [ATTACH=full]1159197[/ATTACH] [B]ROMAN REPUBLIC. M. Sergius Silus, quaestor.[/B] AR Denarius. 3.87g, 18.5mm. Rome mint, AD 116-115. Crawford 286/1. O: Head of Roma right; ROMA and XVI monogram behind; EX S C before. R: Helmeted horseman galloping left, holding sword and severed Gallic head in left hand; Q (for Quaestor) below; M.SERGI, SILVS in exergue. T. Didius's is probably more of a gladiatorial scene, but the alot of action is packed into the poses of the combatants. [ATTACH=full]1159198[/ATTACH] [B]ROMAN REPUBLIC. T. Didius, moneyer.[/B] AR Denarius. 3.88g, 19.4mm. Rome mint, 113/2 BC. T. Didius, moneyer. Crawford 294/1; Sydenham 550. O: Helmeted head of Roma right; [XVI monogram below], monogram of ROMA behind. R: Two gladiators fighting, one attacking with a whip, the other defending with a staff (or sword); T•DEIDI in exergue. [I]Ex Prof Dr Hildebrecht Hommel Collection, acquired from Hirsch, auction 71, 17 March 1971, lot 477[/I] Roma Numismatic Notes : "Babelon suggests that the reverse type refers to the moneyer’s ancestor T. Didius, who was sent to Sicily in 138 BC to quash a slave result that was ultimately the precursor to the first of the three Servile Wars. Crawford disagrees, suggesting that the reverse depicts a scene one would expect to witness at the games T. Didius promised to put on during his time as aedile, making this issue an example of electoral propaganda."[/QUOTE]
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