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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2192686, member: 56859&quot;]Here&#039;s that image from wikipedia:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Sacrum_Cloacina.jpg/580px-Sacrum_Cloacina.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The caption says &quot; The Sacrum Cloacina as it appeared in August 2012. The top of the shrine is seen at ground level. Its base is several meters below the surface.&quot; but I wonder if that is accurate.&nbsp; Based on the coin, what shows in today&#039;s ruins couldn&#039;t be the top of the shrine.&nbsp; It looks more like the foundation of the shrine.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One explanation from the Numismatic Fine Arts auction catalog, <i>Julius Caesar and His Legacy; an Auction of Roman Coins</i>, 13 May 1991, p. 8:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The types of this denarius reflect the notions of cleansing and renewal which were implicit in the mandate of the Second Triumvirate.&nbsp; Sol, the sun god, was one of Mark Antony&#039;s patron deities.&nbsp; Ancient myths told of a nightly battle between the sun and the powers of darkness, from which the sun always emerged triumphant.&nbsp; This cycle provided an inspiring allegory for the hoped-for victory over Caesar&#039;s assassins.</p><p><br /></p><p>More obscure is the scene depicted on the reverse of this denarius.&nbsp; It is a shrine that would have been familiar to the coin&#039;s contemporaries, dedicated jointly to Venus Cloacina, the patroness of the city sewers, and Concord.&nbsp; Thus is symbolizes both purification-- through in a manner slightly incongruous to modern taste-- and the cooperation between Antony and Octavian.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The loss of popularity of board games is sad.&nbsp; My fondest family holiday memories are of stuffing ourselves silly and then sitting around playing board games and solving jigsaw puzzles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember the game &quot;Masterpiece&quot;, where the players were art dealers trying to buy and sell famous paintings?&nbsp; The paintings and values were on separate cards which were blindly paired prior to the game&#039;s start.&nbsp; Some were forgeries.&nbsp; The goal was to amass the most money.&nbsp; To do so you had to deceitfully sell the forgery, if you were unlucky enough to be stuck with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks ago I considered trying to make an ancient coin version of this game.&nbsp; Who would play it with me though? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>Just in case anyone doesn&#039;t get the logo, the little man is the Monopoly character as he appears on this card.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]426171[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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