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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2625905, member: 57495&quot;]My two favorites asses were part of a series Antoninus Pius struck to commemorate the 900th anniversary of Rome. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/image-jpeg.495468/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE As. 11.34g, 27.8mm. RIC 694a.</p><p>Reverse depicts the parental units of Romulus and Remus about to discuss some family planning. Rhea Silvia was a vestal virgin, daughter of Numitor, the King of Alba Longa, and a descendant of Aeneas. Mars was the Roman god of war.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/image-jpeg.495467/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE As. 11.02g, 28.6mm. RIC 733.</p><p>Reverse scene showing the White Sow of Lanuvium suckling her little ones. </p><p>Aeneas was a Trojan hero who escaped the fall of Troy. He journeyed with his followers to Latium, where a divine dream led him to found a new settlement at a site where he came across a white sow suckling her young by a river under an oak tree. On his way, he had a little fling with Dido, founder and queen of Carthage, whom he subsequently abandoned. It&#039;s perhaps no surprise then that when Aeneas&#039;s descendants went on found Rome that there would be a little bit of bad blood between the two great cities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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