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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 1720281, member: 44132&quot;]One of my new Roman Republic coins has a reverse dedicated to the legend of the rape of the Sabine women.&nbsp; Too bad the reverse is not better centered.&nbsp; Now I need to find the sister coin to this where Tarpeia is buried to the waist in shields.</p><p><br /></p><p>L. TITURIUS L.F. SABINUS AR Denarius; GENS TITURIA</p><p>OBV:&nbsp; Head of Tatius facing right, SABIN behind, palm below chin</p><p>REV:&nbsp; Two Roman soldiers, each holding a woman in his arms, L.TITVRI in ex.</p><p>Struck at Rome, 89 BC</p><p>3.8g, 20mm</p><p>Cr344/1b, Syd 698a, Tiituria 2</p><p>[ATTACH]266503.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]266504.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend of the Sabine women</p><p><br /></p><p>Legend says that the Romans abducted Sabine women to populate the newly built Rome. The resultant war ended only by the women throwing themselves and their children between the armies of their fathers and their husbands. The Rape of the Sabine Women (&quot;rape&quot; in this context meaning &quot;kidnapping&quot; rather than sexual violation, see raptio) became a common motif in art; the women ending the war forms a less frequent but still reappearing motif.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Livy, after the conflict the Sabine and Roman states merged, and the Sabine king Titus Tatius jointly ruled Rome with Romulus until Tatius&#039; death five years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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