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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3054747, member: 56859"]A quick tour of archives shows that on all of these coins, the carried figure is wearing a long garment. Some coins show what appear to be breasts, like Arnoldoe's coin, although we've all seen "breasts" on known male figures-- a function of overzealous engraving or limitations due to the tiny canvas cruder gravers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a blurb about these Herennius denarii from <a href="http://romanumismatics.com/articles/article/roman-republic-m.-herennius-the-importance-of-piety/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanumismatics.com/articles/article/roman-republic-m.-herennius-the-importance-of-piety/" rel="nofollow">Roma's archives</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">"There are two possible interpretations of this reverse design, each with merit. The first is that the moneyer M. Herennius, who perhaps had a connection with Sicily, chose to illustrate a local example of Piety: the brothers Amphinomus and Anapias, who are supposed to have saved their parents from an eruption of Mt Etna by carrying them from danger on their shoulders. The second interpretation reaches back to the mythological founding of Rome; Aeneas, during the fall of Troy, carried his father Anchises from the burning ruins of the city. Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome, through their descendence from him, made Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people. Long before Virgil makes reference to ‘pious Aeneas’ in his Aeneid, the Roman concept of piety was threefold; duty to the gods, to one’s homeland and to one’s family, which neatly links the reverse type with the obverse on this coin."</span></p><p><br /></p><p>If some of these coins do show a woman being carried, then it would clarify which story forms the basis for the type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3054747, member: 56859"]A quick tour of archives shows that on all of these coins, the carried figure is wearing a long garment. Some coins show what appear to be breasts, like Arnoldoe's coin, although we've all seen "breasts" on known male figures-- a function of overzealous engraving or limitations due to the tiny canvas cruder gravers. Here's a blurb about these Herennius denarii from [URL='http://romanumismatics.com/articles/article/roman-republic-m.-herennius-the-importance-of-piety/']Roma's archives[/URL]: [COLOR=#0000ff]"There are two possible interpretations of this reverse design, each with merit. The first is that the moneyer M. Herennius, who perhaps had a connection with Sicily, chose to illustrate a local example of Piety: the brothers Amphinomus and Anapias, who are supposed to have saved their parents from an eruption of Mt Etna by carrying them from danger on their shoulders. The second interpretation reaches back to the mythological founding of Rome; Aeneas, during the fall of Troy, carried his father Anchises from the burning ruins of the city. Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome, through their descendence from him, made Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people. Long before Virgil makes reference to ‘pious Aeneas’ in his Aeneid, the Roman concept of piety was threefold; duty to the gods, to one’s homeland and to one’s family, which neatly links the reverse type with the obverse on this coin."[/COLOR] If some of these coins do show a woman being carried, then it would clarify which story forms the basis for the type.[/QUOTE]
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