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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3893854, member: 51347&quot;]I collect historically, so I really do not focus how purdy a coin is.&nbsp; However, coins that touch critical junctures in history, or important peoples, important persons, etc. appeal to me.&nbsp; Sometimes, just cool coins are fun for me!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am careful not to post this, as this is [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] &#039;s FAVORITE coin in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD of Coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Me?&nbsp; It is one of my favorites.&nbsp; <b>5/12ths of an As</b>!&nbsp; Now THAT is a denomination!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1027025[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR Anon 210 BCEAE 23 <b>Quincunx</b> 6.96g Apollo P behind Dioscuri Luceria 5 pellets Cr 99-4 Syd 309 S 910 Very Rare</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>PUBLIUS QUINCTILIUS VARUS</b></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-3-20_11-34-32-png.909029/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>AE OF ANTIOCHEIA, SYRIA</p><p>RPC 4252, SNG Cop. 92, 20.4mm, 8.03 grams, Dated year 27 = 5/4 B.C.E.</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus to right</p><p>Reverse: Tyche of Antioch seated to right, holding palm branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right, in right field, date ZK (year 27 = 5/4 B.C.E.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This rare coin was struck during Varus&#039; assignment as <b>Governor of Syria</b> from 7 - 4 B.C.E. Varus guarded the borders from Parthia and violently quelled unrest in Judaea and Samaria. Josephus records an incident wherein after the death of Herod., Varus occupied Jerusalem and crucified 2,000 Jews.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later Varus was transfered to the Northern front, where he met disaster fighting the Germanic tribes in the Teutoburg forest. Three legions under his command, legions XVII, XVIII and XIX were completely annihilated. This caused emperor Augustus great grief and he was said to have cried out on occasion <b><i>&quot;Quintili Vare, legiones redde!&quot; or &quot;Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!&quot;</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b>ETRURIA</b></p><p><b><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2017-10-5_12-38-6-png.686341/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></b></p><p>ETRURIA, Arretium (?). The Chiana Valley. Circa 208-207 BC. Æ Quartunica . Head of African right; monogram to left / Indian elephant standing right, bell around neck; monogram below. HN Italy 69; SNG ANS 41 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 48 var. (no monogram on obv.). rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>This enigmatic issue has been much discussed. It was Sestini in 1816 who first indicated their area of circulation in and around the Chiana (Clanis) valley and lake Trasimeno, dominated by the cities of Arezzo, Chiusi and Cortona. The traditional attribution of the issue to 217 BC, as representing the propaganda of Hannibal’s approach to Etruria, was modified by Robinson (op. cit.), who saw it as a provocative seditious type of Arretium, which was in a state of high tension with Rome in 209/8, in the hoped for arrival of Hasdrubal from Spain with reinforcements. However, the reverse depicts an Indian rather than African elephant with a bell around its neck reminiscent of the elephant/saw aes signatum issue (Crawford 9/1) of about 250-240 BC and associated with the battle of Maleventum (soon to be called Beneventum) in 275 BC when the captured elephants of Pyrrhus were brought to Rome in triumph. A similar Indian elephant is also depicted as a symbol on the Tarantine nomos issue (Vlasto 710-712), indicating the presence of Pyrrhus in the city in 282-276. The Barcid coinage of New Carthage (Villaronga CNH, pg. 65, 12-15) and that of Hannibal in Sicily (SNG Cop. 382) clearly depict African elephants belonging to the elephant corps from about 220 BC. As Maria Baglione points out in &quot;Su alcune parallele di bronzo coniato,&quot; Atti Napoli 1975, pg.153-180, the African/elephant issue shares control marks with other cast and struck Etruscan coins of the region, she quotes Panvini Rosati in ‘ Annuario dell’accademia Etrusca di Cortona XII’, 1964, pg. 167ff., who suggests the type is to be seen as a moneyer’s badge or commemorative issue in the style of Caesar’s elephant/sacrificial implements issue of 49/48 BC (Crawford 443/1). The elephant, an attribute of Mercury/Turms, is an emblem of wisdom and is also a symbol of strength and of the overcoming of evil</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>MARSIC CONFEDERATION</b></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-10-15_9-33-33-png.545512/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Marsic Confederation - </b>The Social War</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>3.60g, 20mm</p><p>Corfinium mint, 89 BC.</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Italia right, wearing pearl necklace; ITALIA behind, X (mark of value) below chin</p><p>Rev: Italia, seated left on shields, holding sceptre in right hand and sword in left, being crowned with wreath by Victory who stands behind; retrograde B in exergue. Ref: Campana 105, Series 7a (same obverse die); Sear 228 w/ control mark inverted B; HN Italy 412a</p><p>Comments: Cleaning marks to rev.</p><p>18 known Rare</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>FIRST AR COIN of ROME</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In reading Kenneth Harl&#039;s book, although this coin does not FEATURE an Aquaduct, it was used to pay for the BUILDING of Via Appia and Aqua Appia. These were the first major projects that Rome embarked, creating their first &quot;super-highway&quot; and first major Aquaduct program. The <i>Censor</i> Appius Claudius Caecus built the Aqua Appia in 312 BCE as well as built the Via Appia. Busy dude.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tossing this out again, but this was the time that Rome was REALLY getting itself on the map! <b>Legions, Road Systems, Aquaducts, Concrete, Incorporation of Allies and Citizens</b>... HUGE innovations that made Rome a World Empire.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rr-anon-ar-heavy-denarius-didrachm-310-300-bce-mars-horse-first-jpg.957136/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Roman Republic</p><p>Anon AR Heavy Denarius / Didrachm</p><p>7.3g, 21mm, 310-300 BCE</p><p>Helmeted Bearded Mars</p><p>Horse head, Grain behind / Romano</p><p>Crawford 13-1</p><p>FIRST Silver Coin of Rome. Tarriffed at 10 Asses[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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