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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rich Beale, post: 2495490, member: 77960&quot;]It allowed the Romans on several occasions to defeat the Carthaginians in their own element, yes. However, by the end of the war the increased experience of the Roman crews meant that victory could be achieved without use of the corvus - e.g. Battle of the Aegeates. What must be remembered also is that coinage was not widely utilised by the Romans even in 264-241 BC. By the time the Romans could both rightfully claim to be the dominant naval power in the western Mediterranean (241) and had begun issuing currency on a large scale (with the silver quadrigati c.235 BC), the corvus had already long since been abandoned on account of its serious drawback. The rostrum tridents meanwhile remained the primary weapon employed by military vessels. Apart from it being odd to place a double-edged sword on the coinage, it probably wouldn&#039;t have made for a very obvious or striking design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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