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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3188937, member: 19463"]Until the very end of the Republic when we start calling the coins Imperatorial rather than Republican it was most common for coins to be issued honoring a relative who had served Rome well. The moneyers were young men with political aspirations who were happy for voters to think of them as potential heroes likely to be as good as their grandfather had been. One of the best examples of this is a coin issued by the young Brutus in 54BC (a decade before he killed Caesar) showing L. Junius Brutus the Ancient and Caius Servilius Ahala who both had gained fame in their day 400-450 years earlier) by killing a tyrant. The coin was basically a promise to save Rome from any tyrant that popped up. How many campaign promises were more completely fulfilled? My example is a fourree. You can do better if you wish.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]822841[/ATTACH]</p><p>Very few Republican coins record 'real time' events or accomplishments by the issuer himself. The political mores of that day would frown on boasting too much about yourself and most men holding the relatively low position of moneyer would have anything to boast about anyway. Roman families tended to use a very restricted pool of names within a family so the chances of your name being the same as a famous hero was excellent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3188937, member: 19463"]Until the very end of the Republic when we start calling the coins Imperatorial rather than Republican it was most common for coins to be issued honoring a relative who had served Rome well. The moneyers were young men with political aspirations who were happy for voters to think of them as potential heroes likely to be as good as their grandfather had been. One of the best examples of this is a coin issued by the young Brutus in 54BC (a decade before he killed Caesar) showing L. Junius Brutus the Ancient and Caius Servilius Ahala who both had gained fame in their day 400-450 years earlier) by killing a tyrant. The coin was basically a promise to save Rome from any tyrant that popped up. How many campaign promises were more completely fulfilled? My example is a fourree. You can do better if you wish. [ATTACH=full]822841[/ATTACH] Very few Republican coins record 'real time' events or accomplishments by the issuer himself. The political mores of that day would frown on boasting too much about yourself and most men holding the relatively low position of moneyer would have anything to boast about anyway. Roman families tended to use a very restricted pool of names within a family so the chances of your name being the same as a famous hero was excellent.[/QUOTE]
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