Featured The Story of the Coin Struck to Fight Hannibal: The First Denarius and its Influence

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Mercury is a male Roman god who was associated with trade and finance by the ancient Romans. He was often depicted in Greek and Roman art wearing sandals (sometimes a helmet) with wings on them.


The goddess on the Mercury Dime is actually Liberty (not Mercury) who is a female goddess modeled after the ancient Roman goddess "Libertas".

The American public mistook the winged portrait of Liberty for Mercury and the name just stuck

 

Would you mind if I "copy and pasted" some of your written knowledge from the post?


So is there anyone still with me?...


If so please

POST YOUR ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINS! I know you got ‘em so let’s see ‘em.


And just to mix it up a bit lets also

POST YOUR FAVORITE MODERN COIN SHOWING AN ANCIENT THEME![/QUOTE]

 

Feel free to use any of the content of my post you find interesting.

 

you always did go the extra mile Alegandron

 

very impressive OP curtis..indeed, you are great

 

I purchased a bag of uncleaned Roman coins and am currently in the process of cleaning them. Some of them are close to identification quality now Ancient coins with large histories are very exciting.

 

I like those two headed ones. Think i said that already

 

Two heads are better then one. Hey. Whats the oldest coin with a date on it. Coin chat wants to know

 

Yes, me too. I like them very much. I think when the heads are like this on an ancient coin they are called "conjoined."

 

The two faces looking forward and backwards is called Janiform from Janus. See the Wiki article...

I believe it was originally a Diety from the Etrurians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus

 

Thank you. I wonder to what I am referring? Some list of definitions I saw somewhere.

Ah...yes, @Alegandron & @Cheech9712 - Conjoined is this:
conjoined - Two heads in profile next to each other, so that both profiles can be seen. See jugate.
Thanks to http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/glossary.html

 

Hi,everyone..

That was very artistic coin.

Thank you for create article stories behind coins, i love to read rome and greek historycal

 

Welcome @Tangorivera

 

I appreciate the kind words @Tangorivera. Welcome to CT!

 

%hanks. Those are my favorite. I want one. And a Hannibal coin to boot. Who rides elephants over mountains. Yeah i would

 

Darling. I got your back. Your explanation made perfect cents

 

Now thats an answer. Not what i wanted to hear. Your picture is hard to denie

 

Thanks for a very interesting and informative post! Here is my contribution (which is also my first ancient coin!)

Anonymous AR, Roman Republican Denarius, 169-157 BC, Roma on obv and Nike with biga on reverse. Ref. Sear 76.

 

Pretty coin @larssten