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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 5132757, member: 87809"]What a pleasure to read <a href="http://@Cucumbor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://@Cucumbor" rel="nofollow">@Cucumbor</a>'s writing, learning about these different types and seeing all these beautiful coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Have shown my crocodiles before, prefer not to repeat myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sharing this Janus denarius (maybe I also shared it already...) - the galley certainly looks like a crocodile, which I never noticed before:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lazio, Rome 114 - 113 BC moneyer Caius Fonteius</p><p>19 x 20 mm, 3.522 g</p><p><br /></p><p>RSC 1; CRR 555; Sydenham 555, Fonteia 1;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate, janiform heads of Dioscuri; on l. control mark H; pellets for H-value • • • • • • below necks. On r., denominational mark X (crossed)=XVI. Border of dots</p><p>Rev.: C·FONT (NT ligated) // (ROMA) galley traveling to r. with helmsman and three rowers to l.; acrostolium on prow of the galley; border of dots</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1204407[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1204406[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 5132757, member: 87809"]What a pleasure to read [URL='http://@Cucumbor']@Cucumbor[/URL]'s writing, learning about these different types and seeing all these beautiful coins. Have shown my crocodiles before, prefer not to repeat myself :D Sharing this Janus denarius (maybe I also shared it already...) - the galley certainly looks like a crocodile, which I never noticed before: Lazio, Rome 114 - 113 BC moneyer Caius Fonteius 19 x 20 mm, 3.522 g RSC 1; CRR 555; Sydenham 555, Fonteia 1; Ob.: Laureate, janiform heads of Dioscuri; on l. control mark H; pellets for H-value • • • • • • below necks. On r., denominational mark X (crossed)=XVI. Border of dots Rev.: C·FONT (NT ligated) // (ROMA) galley traveling to r. with helmsman and three rowers to l.; acrostolium on prow of the galley; border of dots [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1204407[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1204406[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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