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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3773248, member: 99456&quot;]Great coin with many stories connected.&nbsp; I also upgraded a few years ago, and haven&#039;t yet convinced myself to release the first one - it has perhaps a less dramatic <i>&#039;<a href="http://stannard.info/stannard_adjustment_al%20marco_of_denarii_blanks.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stannard.info/stannard_adjustment_al%20marco_of_denarii_blanks.pdf" rel="nofollow">adjustment al marco</a>&#039;</i> as described by [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER].&nbsp; I am not sure there are duplicates in ancient coins...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008987[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the companion (as it is not a replacement):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008988[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>L. Censorinus</b>, 82 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate head of Apollo right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Marsyas standing left, raising hand and holding wineskin over shoulder; to right, column surmounted by statue of (Victory? Minerva?) standing right</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 363/1d (no control marks - c. 197 obv/c. 228 rev dies per Crawford RRC)</p><p><br /></p><p>Pliny tells <a href="https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof04plin/page/308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof04plin/page/308" rel="nofollow">a story</a> (NH XXI.6) of Augustus&#039; daughter, Julia, getting in trouble with her father for placing a garland or chaplet on the statue of Marsyas (during her &quot;nocturnal debaucheries&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was Gaius Marcius Censorinus, who minted coins in 88 BC (Crawford 346) and fought Sulla in the Battle of the Colline Gate, of whom Appian writes:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">&quot;It was estimated that 50,000 men on both sides lost their lives in this engagement. Prisoners, to the number of more than 8,000, were shot down with darts by Sulla because they were mostly Samnites. The next day Marcius and Carinas were captured and brought in. Sulla did not spare them because they were Romans, but killed them both and sent their heads to Lucretius at Praeneste to be displayed round the walls.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#93.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#93.1" rel="nofollow">- Appian, The Civil Wars, 1.93</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Sulla would have enjoyed the Greek version of the tale, with Marsyas as a reminder of a god&#039;s right to punish anyone who dares to challenge them.</p><p><img src="https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/399626/779525/main-image" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas</b> (<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399626" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399626" rel="nofollow">Melchior Meier, AD 1581</a>) - Midas, right, punished for choosing Marsyas as the winner in the music competition with Apollo, and Marsyas, left, flayed by Apollo, center, for his hubris in challenging the god.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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