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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3525724, member: 99456"][USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] - I like the Venus Victrix reverse on your first coin. Here's a Caracalla denarius with a lot going on on the reverse:[ATTACH=full]936752[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Caracalla</b> AD 211-217. </p><p>Rome AR Denarius Struck AD 205</p><p><b>Obv:</b> ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>PONTIF TR P VIII COS II, Salus seated left, feeding from a patera, a serpent coiled around an altar</p><p>Although he was only ~17 in 205, and from the coin above had not mastered yet the sneer or the scruffy beard, he had already manged to have his father in law executed for treason and banished his wife, Plautilla, whom he had been forced to marry at 14.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3525724, member: 99456"][USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] - I like the Venus Victrix reverse on your first coin. Here's a Caracalla denarius with a lot going on on the reverse:[ATTACH=full]936752[/ATTACH] [B]Caracalla[/B] AD 211-217. Rome AR Denarius Struck AD 205 [B]Obv:[/B] ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right [B]Rev: [/B]PONTIF TR P VIII COS II, Salus seated left, feeding from a patera, a serpent coiled around an altar Although he was only ~17 in 205, and from the coin above had not mastered yet the sneer or the scruffy beard, he had already manged to have his father in law executed for treason and banished his wife, Plautilla, whom he had been forced to marry at 14.[/QUOTE]
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