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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7537186, member: 99456&quot;]Congrats, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], #54 is another nice one - and I always like a yellowed, hand written ink tag. Here is mine of the type - which has an ancient scuff mark on the obverse, but a portrait that I think is very nice otherwise.&nbsp; Sydenham on 839 (with AED) - 839 (only AE) just mentioned &quot;Knife, simpulum, and ornamented axe&quot; - mine looks more eagle-like than leonine to me, but looking at Schaefer, lion seems to be the intent, and I am writing off mine as a combination of die sloppiness, strike and wear.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301444[/ATTACH]</p><p>The destined victim &#039;mid the snows</p><p>Of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Algidus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Algidus" rel="nofollow">Algidus</a> in oakwoods fed,</p><p>Or where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Longa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Longa" rel="nofollow">Alban herbage</a> grows,</p><p>Shall dye the pontiff&#039;s axes (<i>Pontificum<b> secures</b></i>) red</p><p>-Horace, Odes <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025%3Abook%3D3%3Apoem%3D23" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025%3Abook%3D3%3Apoem%3D23" rel="nofollow">3.23</a></p><p><br /></p><p>while dark blood spurts over the earth, from the throat</p><p>of the bright sacrifice, struck by the axe-blow (<i>percussa <b>securi</b></i>),</p><p>the gifts promised to the temples of the benign gods,</p><p>are being prepared for offering by both victorious Caesars,</p><p>-Ovid, Sorrows, Book <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidTristiaBkFour.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidTristiaBkFour.php" rel="nofollow">TIV.II:1-74 Tiberius’s Triumph</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301443[/ATTACH]</p><p>Illustrations of Laurentio Begero (Lorenz Beger), aka Daphnaeus Arcuarius, Roman librarian, art historian and archaeologist (1653-1705).&nbsp; <a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/beger1791bd3/0476" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/beger1791bd3/0476" rel="nofollow">Published in AD 1696-1701</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and for completeness a simpulum</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301191[/ATTACH]</p><p>from the collection of <a href="https://ancientglass.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/roman-simpulum.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ancientglass.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/roman-simpulum.jpg" rel="nofollow">Hans von Rossum</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301163[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>P. Galba</b>, 69 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Veiled and draped bust of Vesta right, S•C Behind</p><p><b>Rev:</b> AE - CVR, emblems of the pontificate: secespita, simpulum, and securis, P GALB in exergue</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-406.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-406.1" rel="nofollow">406/1</a>; Sydenham 839; Sulpicia 7</p><p>a couple of examples with same dies in <a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b06#schaefer.rrdp.b06_0213" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b06#schaefer.rrdp.b06_0213" rel="nofollow">Schaefer</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1301199[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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