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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3919019, member: 76194&quot;]Time for the next two to be revealed.</p><p><br /></p><p>#5: <b>TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1032950[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Well, so the saying goes. But when the heads start to fight each other, one of them must roll. I think judging from this coin, we know which head rolled, and which one went on to become the first Roman emperor.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1032946[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>Mark Antony and Octavian</p><p>Traveling military mint, or possibly Ephesus mint</p><p>3.467g, 19.5mm</p><p>Spring - Early summer 41 B.C.</p><p>Obverse M ANT IMP AVG III VIR R P C M BARBAT Q P, bare head of Antony right</p><p>Reverse CAESAR IMP PONT III VIR R P C, bare beardless head of Octavian right</p><p>Ex: Errett Bishop Collection</p><p>Crawford 517/2, Sydenham 1181, BMCRR East 103, Sear CRI 243, RSC I Mark Antony and Augustus 8, SRCV I 150</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>#4: POPEYE THE ROMAN SAILOR MAN</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1032955[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>No, you don&#039;t need to go see an optometrist. There are in fact two janiform heads on this coin. Maybe this one should have been titled &quot;Two heads are better than one?&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> One thing we can all agree on is that I ought to have my head examined. Making up so many bad head puns ought to be illegal, but that&#039;s a story for another day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful obverse designs in any Roman Republic era coins.&nbsp; And on the reverse is none other than the Roman Popeye guiding his sailors bravely into the unknown waters of the Mediterranean in search of the Long Lost Continent of Spinach...or is it Atlantis? Not sure which. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1032947[/ATTACH] C. Fonteius, Rome, 114-113 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.93g, 5h). Laureate, janiform heads of the Dioscuri; I to l. R/ Galley l. with three rowers, gubernator at stern. Crawford 290/1; RBW 1120; RSC Fonteia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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