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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4037851, member: 57495"]Excellent acquisition for your architectural collection, AA. Congrats! What a wonderfully busy temple, too, with the statues of all those gods and goddesses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's Concordia on the obverse of a denarius of L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060165[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus.</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.96g, 18.9mm. Rome mint, 62 BC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, moneyer. Crawford 415/1. O: PAVLLS (sic) LEPIDVS CONCORDIA, diademed and veiled bust of Concordia right. R: TER / PAVLLVS, Trophy; to right, L. Aemilius Paullus in toga standing left; to left, three captives (King Perseus of Macedon and his two sons).</p><p>Notes: Rare variant, with Paullus’s name on the obverse spelled PAVLLS instead of PAVLLVS. Crawford notes this error on only 1 obverse die out of 240 he recorded for the issue. The reverse die is notable for the unusually detailed rendering of the type's scene, with even the ties of the bindings around Perseus's wrists clearly visible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4037851, member: 57495"]Excellent acquisition for your architectural collection, AA. Congrats! What a wonderfully busy temple, too, with the statues of all those gods and goddesses. Here's Concordia on the obverse of a denarius of L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus. [ATTACH=full]1060165[/ATTACH] [B]ROMAN REPUBLIC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus.[/B] AR Denarius. 3.96g, 18.9mm. Rome mint, 62 BC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, moneyer. Crawford 415/1. O: PAVLLS (sic) LEPIDVS CONCORDIA, diademed and veiled bust of Concordia right. R: TER / PAVLLVS, Trophy; to right, L. Aemilius Paullus in toga standing left; to left, three captives (King Perseus of Macedon and his two sons). Notes: Rare variant, with Paullus’s name on the obverse spelled PAVLLS instead of PAVLLVS. Crawford notes this error on only 1 obverse die out of 240 he recorded for the issue. The reverse die is notable for the unusually detailed rendering of the type's scene, with even the ties of the bindings around Perseus's wrists clearly visible.[/QUOTE]
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