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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 7536958, member: 96898&quot;]Here is a recent Roman Republican addition to my collection. As an avid reader of P.G. Wodehouse and great admirer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Blandings" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Blandings" rel="nofollow">Empress of Blandings</a>, I simply couldn&#039;t resist this reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>There already are multiple good write-ups on this type on CT as well as an informative <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f26.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f26.html" rel="nofollow">webpage</a> by [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], which is why I will not go into great detail here. The obverse of this denarius shows the jugate heads of the <i>dei penates</i>, the Roman deities of domestic affairs and guardians of the storeroom. On the reverse, we probably see a scene from the <i>Aeneid</i>: Aeneas and his companions find a white sow along with her litter lying under an oak tree, which acoording to an earlier prophecy marks the location where they are supposed to build the city of Lavinium.</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1301147[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Roman Republic, moneyer: C. Sulpicius, AR denarius serratus, 106 BC, Rome mint. Obv: D. P. P; jugate, laureate heads of the dei penates publici l. Rev: C. SVLPICI. C. F; two male figures standing facing each other, each holding spear in l. hand and with r. hand pointing at sow which lies between them; above, control-letter C. 20mm, 4.00g. Ref: RRC 312/1.</font></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Please show your coins with pigs and boars of all sorts!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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