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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3493635, member: 91461"]Plenty, if not most, nations have some disgraceful beginnings. But nobody celebrated, and more than likely out and out embellished, shameful beginnings like the Roman's.</p><p>I posted a hoard that I recently received from Timeline auctions of some funderful "ugly" coins. But I snuck in one RR denarius.</p><p>Leave it to the Roman's to turn an event like what they did to their neighbors, the Sabines, as a revenge of the nerdsesque panty raid.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]924981[/ATTACH]</p><p>L Titurius L f Sabinus</p><p><br /></p><p>- Rape of the Sabine Women Denarius</p><p>89 BC. Rome mint. Obv: bare head of King Tatius right, bearded, SABIN behind, palm-branch before. Rev: two Roman soldiers running, each bearing a Sabine woman in his arms; L TITVRI in exergue. Craw. 344/1b; Syd. 698; RSC Tituria 2; Sear 249. 3.76 grams.</p><p>Near very fine.</p><p>Ex: Timeline Auction</p><p><br /></p><p>Or to go back to their made up beginning, being driven from their homeland by the superior Greeks:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]924995[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julius Caesar, †44 BC. Denarius fouree, Africa, 47-46 BC. AR 3.84 g. Diademed head of Venus r. Rev. CAESAR Aeneas running l., carrying his father Anchises on his l. shoulder, holding palladium on his outstretched r. hand. Cr. 458/1. Syd. 1013.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or how about your founder being fed by a K9 and then committing fratricide!?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]924996[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT(306-337). Commemorative series. Follis. Kyzikos.Obv: VRBS ROMA. Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Roma left.Rev: SMKE. She-wolf standing left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; two stars above.RIC 91.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Post those coins of Rome's notorious beginning, their enemies ignominious starts or whatever you think is ridiculous to celebrate![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3493635, member: 91461"]Plenty, if not most, nations have some disgraceful beginnings. But nobody celebrated, and more than likely out and out embellished, shameful beginnings like the Roman's. I posted a hoard that I recently received from Timeline auctions of some funderful "ugly" coins. But I snuck in one RR denarius. Leave it to the Roman's to turn an event like what they did to their neighbors, the Sabines, as a revenge of the nerdsesque panty raid. [ATTACH=full]924981[/ATTACH] L Titurius L f Sabinus - Rape of the Sabine Women Denarius 89 BC. Rome mint. Obv: bare head of King Tatius right, bearded, SABIN behind, palm-branch before. Rev: two Roman soldiers running, each bearing a Sabine woman in his arms; L TITVRI in exergue. Craw. 344/1b; Syd. 698; RSC Tituria 2; Sear 249. 3.76 grams. Near very fine. Ex: Timeline Auction Or to go back to their made up beginning, being driven from their homeland by the superior Greeks: [ATTACH=full]924995[/ATTACH] Julius Caesar, †44 BC. Denarius fouree, Africa, 47-46 BC. AR 3.84 g. Diademed head of Venus r. Rev. CAESAR Aeneas running l., carrying his father Anchises on his l. shoulder, holding palladium on his outstretched r. hand. Cr. 458/1. Syd. 1013. Or how about your founder being fed by a K9 and then committing fratricide!? [ATTACH=full]924996[/ATTACH] CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT(306-337). Commemorative series. Follis. Kyzikos.Obv: VRBS ROMA. Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Roma left.Rev: SMKE. She-wolf standing left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; two stars above.RIC 91. Post those coins of Rome's notorious beginning, their enemies ignominious starts or whatever you think is ridiculous to celebrate![/QUOTE]
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