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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8365093, member: 87809&quot;]A wonderful set of Juno Sospita [USER=100951]@Mr.MonkeySwag96[/USER] and all shown in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Juno was above all revered in Lanuvium, an ancient city in Latium about 30 Km. southeast of Rome. Several moneyers came from this city and are represented on late Roman Republican denarii. The Papii themselves maintained that they had come from Lanuvium. Lucius Papius was one of the triumvir monetalis in 79 BC. </p><p>According to Livius, Lanuvium was famous for its rich and often visited Juno Sospita temple. Her cult goes back to the archaic cult of a goat queen.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wanted always one Juno Sospita, and was finally able to win my one and only one recently at cng. It is quite worn, but I am happy to have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sydenham proposed that the symbols on these denarii represent trade guilds and merchants (collegia opificum) in &quot;Symbols on Denarii of L. Papius and L. Roscius&quot;, Numismatic Chronicle, 1931. The control marks on this type are normally paired related symbols. Each pair has only one set of dies. H.A. Seaby writes there are at least 235 pairs and &quot;They are well executed and cover the whole range of Roman life and industry, etc., and are of great interest to the antiquarian. They are mostly symbolic of the various trade-guilds.” However, Crawford in RRC, suggested that there is no such association with the collegia. Rather he believes they are a &quot;random selection of pairs of everyday objects&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php" rel="nofollow">https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php</a> lists all the known Papius denarii varieties. </p><p><br /></p><p>Denarius Serratus, Rome, 79 BC</p><p>Crawford 384/1, type 33; Sydenham 773; RSC I Papia 1; SRCV I 311</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat&#039;s skin; shallow cup behind.</p><p>Rev.: Griffin springing right; rhyton ending in a horse left below L•PAPI in ex.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484486[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1484487[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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