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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4536577, member: 110350&quot;]A large and very disgruntled sow has joined my Republican zoo.&nbsp; (The eternally-about-to-perish-heifer whom everyone thought was a bull has joined as well, although I introduced her in a separate thread because there was so much to say about her gender!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba, AR Serrate Denarius, 106 BCE. Obv. Jugate heads of Dei Penates left, D•P•P [<i>Dei Penates Publici</i>]&nbsp; beneath heads / Rev. Two soldiers facing each other, holding spears and pointing at sow lying down between them with forelegs extended; S above. In exergue: C•SVL•ICI•C•F. [<i>Indication of undertype on right of reverse, causing loss of detail.</i>]&nbsp; RSC I Sulpicia 1, Crawford 312/1, Sydenham 572, Sear RCV I 189 (ill.) <i>Purchased from Marc Breitsprecher; Ex. Madroosi Collection.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123254[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>See Sear RCV I at p. 108:<i> “</i>Crawford’s interpretation of this interesting type seems the most convincing: it refers to Aeneas’ [landing at and founding of] Lavinium (home of the Sulpicia gens) with the Penates, and the subsequent miracle of the great white sow [giving birth to 30 piglets], which foretold the founding of Alba Longa,” where the soil was more fertile, 30 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s too bad about the overstrike/undertype, because it basically caused the loss of all detail in the soldier on the right.&nbsp; (He does look happy, though!) I very much doubt that it&#039;s possible to discern what&#039;s underneath.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123255[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &quot;Madroosi Collection,&quot; it&#039;s apparently the made-up name for the collection of a good friend of Marc Breitsprecher who died a couple of years ago, and used to be an Ebay dealer.&nbsp; This particular coin came originally from an old collection in Philadelphia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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