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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4566857, member: 84744&quot;]What a fun post &amp; thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>My Glabrio Valetudo isn&#039;t great, but the provenance is cool: it&#039;s from the Quidenham hoard, buried at the time of Boudicca&#039;s revolt.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130814[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty sure the feature you&#039;re looking at, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], is just drapery, kind of like this:</p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/2c/0b/f32c0b7b309ce6c9c0e114a6fe98828e--rome-hbo-ancient-rome.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I talk at tedious length about the serpent on Caesar&#039;s famous elephant coin in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caesars-elephant-and-snake-what-do-they-mean.343865/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caesars-elephant-and-snake-what-do-they-mean.343865/">this thread</a>.&nbsp; I think it represents the genius of Caesar/the paterfamilias/the people.&nbsp; It&#039;s interesting to note which Republican snakes have the magical crest &amp; beard:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130815[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One more, with a rather silly looking banker&#039;s mark:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130816[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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