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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8149788, member: 87809&quot;]Very nice coins [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] and [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER]. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine from JAZ Numismatics, ex Sulla Collection:</p><p>AR Denarius, Rome, 88 BC; moneyer Gaius Marius Censorinus</p><p>19 mm, 3.4 g</p><p><br /></p><p>die axis&nbsp; ↑→ (the description said 10 h, but when the obverse is upright, the reverse is a quarter-turn to the right, or at three o&#039;clock)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ref.: Crawford 346/1d; Babelon (Marcia) 18; Sear RCV I 256; Sydenham 713</p><p>Ob.: Jugate heads of Numa Pompilius bearded, wearing diadem, and Ancus Marcius beardless, to r.; border of dots. Anepigraphic.</p><p>Rev.: C• CENSO Desultor riding one of two horses galloping right holding whip in right hand. Numeral XX below horses, border of dots</p><p><br /></p><p>The strike is off-center, but I fell for the portraits on the obverse and for the galloping horses on the reverse, even though desultor&#039;s head is partially off-flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numa was the legendary second king of Rome, and Ancus Marcius was the legendary fourth king of Rome.</p><p>&quot;Numa appears as a mature, bearded man, revealing his stereotypical depiction as a representative of the Sabine race, as his beard represents the traditional rustic and frugal type who embodied the moral ideals of Rome’s past. The Sabine stereotype represented prisca virtus ‘old-fashioned virtue’ portrayed through a disciplined and austere image and unkempt and hirsute physical appearance, reflecting a rustic upbringing. Although the Sabine background certainly became a feature of Roman literature, the bearded, unkempt image of Numa on coins demonstrates that the stereotype had found physical expression by 97 BC.&quot; <a href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4425/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4425/" rel="nofollow">https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4425/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1421586[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1421587[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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