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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2885451, member: 75937&quot;][USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] has a capricorn denarius of Augustus, which you can see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-silver-capricorn-denarius-of-vespasian-struck-by-titus-ca-80-81-ad.286584/#post-2571329" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-silver-capricorn-denarius-of-vespasian-struck-by-titus-ca-80-81-ad.286584/#post-2571329">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>What strikes me about Roman iconography is how consistent it could be, across centuries and hundreds of miles.</p><p><br /></p><p>This provincial coin was struck way out in the provinces 250 years after Orfew&#039;s denarius. Yet it&#039;s pretty much the same design, down to the globe between the forelegs and the cornucopiae on the capricorn&#039;s back.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]692476[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cornelia Supera, AD 253</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 20.5mm, 3.78g</p><p>Mysia, Parium, AD 253</p><p>Obv: G CORN SUPERA, diademed and draped bust right</p><p>Rev: C. G. I. H. P., Capricorn right, cornucopia on back; globe between legs (Sear describes as a star, but this appears to be a globe)</p><p>Refs: SGI 4408 (var.); SNG Von Aulock 7448.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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