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<p>[QUOTE="Limes, post: 4850157, member: 101013"]Your coin is just... WOW! Amazing portrait and great detail on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had posted this thread on FORVM as well, and I've been given some very convincing arguments that the figure on the reverse is indeed Mercury. On some well rendered examples, one can actually see wings attached to the boots of the figure on the reverse. Interesting to note as well, is that RIC 264 (Victory obverse, Octavian in triumphal quadriga on reverse, IMP CAESAR) shares the obverse die with RIC 263 (Victory obverse, Octavian in triumphal quadriga on reverse, CAESAR DIVI F) and that RIC 263 is pre-Actium and RIC 264 post-actium. This would mean that other CAESAR DIVI F coins, including mine, are pre-Actium and the figure cannot be Apollo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Limes, post: 4850157, member: 101013"]Your coin is just... WOW! Amazing portrait and great detail on the reverse. I had posted this thread on FORVM as well, and I've been given some very convincing arguments that the figure on the reverse is indeed Mercury. On some well rendered examples, one can actually see wings attached to the boots of the figure on the reverse. Interesting to note as well, is that RIC 264 (Victory obverse, Octavian in triumphal quadriga on reverse, IMP CAESAR) shares the obverse die with RIC 263 (Victory obverse, Octavian in triumphal quadriga on reverse, CAESAR DIVI F) and that RIC 263 is pre-Actium and RIC 264 post-actium. This would mean that other CAESAR DIVI F coins, including mine, are pre-Actium and the figure cannot be Apollo.[/QUOTE]
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