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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4418629, member: 99456&quot;]RR denarii are my favorite category - and although I am clearly very late to this party - there is still at least one denarius with an animal reverse that hasn&#039;t shown up yet.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1108463[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>M. Plaetorius M.f. Cestianus</b>, 67 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> CESTIANVS - S.C, bust of female deity to right, draped and wearing the helmet of Minerva, the laurel wreath of Apollo, the crown of Isis, the wings of Victory and with the bow and quiver of Diana on her back and with a cornucopia before</p><p><b>Rev:</b> M PLAET-ORIVS M F - AED - CVR, eagle standing right on thunderbolt, head left, wings spread</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 409/1; Sydenham 809; Plaetoria 4</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse deity is interesting on this coin with Isis, Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Victory, Sabine, Vacuna, Tanit, Fortuna on the obverse.&nbsp; There is debate as well about the date between 67 and 57 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael Crawford rejects Vacuna and sees Isis as a possibility and the reverse a Ptolemaic eagle.</p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580153" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580153" rel="nofollow">M García-Bellido</a> sees Tanit in &quot;PUNIC ICONOGRAPHY ON THE ROMAN DENARII OF M. PLAETORIUS CESTIANUS&quot;, American Journal of Numismatics (1989-), 1, 37-49</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YztmAAAAMAAJ&amp;newbks=0&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YztmAAAAMAAJ&amp;newbks=0&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">Michael Harlan</a> sees Fortuna Primigenia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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