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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6236939, member: 110350&quot;][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], I am embarrassed to admit that I didn&#039;t even know about this type before you posted your wonderful example. Now I want one! (It immediately goes right near the top of my list of Roman Republican coins I want. Other great coins posted on this thread that are already on that list include the Paullus Lepidus depicting a captive Perseus and his sons, and the Metullus depicting a Macedonian shield with an elephant head at its center.&nbsp; For whatever reason, I&#039;m finding it even more difficult this year than last year to find decent examples of Roman Republican coins at affordable prices. For example, I would want the elephant head to be visible on the Metullus, and Perseus and his sons to look like humans rather than blobs on the Paullus Lepidus. Easier said than done.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of your coin reminds me a lot of the reverse on a denarius issued by a later L. Marcius Philippus in 56 BCE (Crawford 425/1):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1246758[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Each of the two coins shows a flower on the reverse beneath the horse&#039;s feet. I didn&#039;t notice anyone in this thread mentioning its meaning, but according to Crawford (Vol. I p. 408), the flower may refer to the conception of Mars by the fertilization of Juno by a flower. Crawford also states (id.), with reference to your coin, that the laurel-branch held by the horseman on the reverse &quot;identifies its bearer as a <i>triumphator</i> and perhaps as Q. Marcius Tremulus, Cos. 306, whose statue stood before the temple of Castor and Pollux.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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