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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3591431, member: 91461&quot;]Another wonderful write up and BEAuuuutiful coin!</p><p>I&#039;d never heard or read the Ulysses/Sulla theory. It makes perfect sense. Was this your own idea or one that you picked up somewhere?</p><p>I have a very well used one directly next to my Sulla coin in my RR collection (same year):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959692[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>C. Mamilius Limetanus</p><p>82 BC.</p><p>Silver Serrate Denarius, 4.06 g., 19 mm.</p><p>Obv. Bust of Mercury right, wearing petasus and holding caduceus.</p><p>Rev. Ulysses (Odysseus) greeting his dog Argos who wags his tail in recognition, the scene recounted in Odyssey 17.290 ff.</p><p>Crawford 362/1; Sydenham 741.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]959691[/ATTACH] </p><p>L. Sulla and L. Manlius Torquatus</p><p>82 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.8 g). Military mint traveling with Sulla. Helmeted head of Roma right / Sulla driving triumphal quadriga right; above, crowning Victory flying left.</p><p>As consul for the year 88 BC, Sulla was awarded the coveted assignment of suppressing the revolt of Mithradates VI of Pontus, but political maneuvers resulted in this assignment being transferred to Marius. In response, Sulla turned his army on Rome,![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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