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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eparch, post: 7954174, member: 89211&quot;]It&#039;s a type I&#039;ve long admired and wanted, but it seems quite rare to find one with the entire reverse design -- particularly, both wings of the eagle -- present on the flan</p><p><br /></p><p>I entirely agree - this is a fascinating legend and one needs as complete&nbsp; a depiction as possible.</p><p>This was one of my first Republican coins, bought in 1975.</p><p>Apologies for the poor photo</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378600[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit more background on the legend, per a post from Jochen if</p><p>I remember correctly :</p><p><br /></p><p>This legend occurs only in Dionysios of Halikarnassos and in a remark of Horace. Dionysios lived in the 2nd half of the 1st century B.C. and was in Rome from 30-7 B.C. He wrote a 20 volume history of Rome (&#039;<i>Antiquitates Romanae</i>&#039;) until the beginning of the Punic War, 264, which is preserved in excerpts. In it he describes from a teleological point of view why Rome was destined to become ruler of the world. He is also known as Rhetor and has written for example a book about Demosthenes and &#039;On the position of words&#039;. He was a representative of <i>Atticism </i>versus <i>Asianism</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Dionysios the legend did not happen in Lanuvium, but in Lavinium. There is said to have been a group representing the legend. But this localization seems to be a mistake of the author. On the obv. of this coin Juno Sospita is depicted. She had its main place in Lanuvium, but not in Lavinium. Also the allusion to the legend of Horace (Hor. epod. 3, 27, 4) occurs shortly after the mention of Lanuvium. The confusion of the two places should not be surprising. Lanuvium and Lavinium were exchanged very often and even in important documents like his <i>Fastes</i>. The strong connection with Aeneas in the story of Dionysios can be explained well as an ingredient of the author, who did not miss the opportunity to decorate the legend. Dionysios attributes a great age to the legend, but we cannot regard this dating as reliable. The most likely reason for this aetiological myth was probably a group of statues whose significance had been lost ( Michael Krumme, Roman legends in ancient coinage, Hitzeroth 1995)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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