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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3001344, member: 57495&quot;]Very neat! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a boxer on a denarius of L. Plaetorius Cestianus.&nbsp; You can see a boxing glove trailing ribbons worn on his left hand.&nbsp; The device of the boxing glove (<i>cestus</i>) is a pun on his cognomen, Cestianus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]742688[/ATTACH]<b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>AR Denarius. Rare. 3.9g, 17mm. Rome mint, 67 BC. Crawford 396/1b (13 obv and rev dies); Sydenham 792a; Plaetoria 2. O: Diademed and draped bust of Juno Moneta right; MONETA downwards behind, [SC below chin].&nbsp; R: Athlete (victorious boxer) running right, holding palm in right hand and wearing ribbons and cestus on left; L PLAETORI downwards behind, L F Q S C upwards before, torch below.</p><p><i>Ex Andrew McCabe Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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