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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20035, member: 57463&quot;]Thanks, Art and Sylvester; I am glad you liked them.&nbsp; It was my intent to post three, but only five images can be uploaded with one post.&nbsp; So, I just placed two.&nbsp; Here are two more.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is a bronze sestertius from Marcus Aurelius, &quot;the Philosopher Emperor&quot; and the last of the Five Good Emperors.&nbsp; He is on the obverse, of course.&nbsp; On the reverse is Minerva carrying her Owl.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second is from the Dorian Greek town of Kyrene, near what is now Bengazi in Libya.&nbsp; Their wealth came from silphium, a plant that worked as a contraceptive.&nbsp; (Its seeds gave us the &quot;heart&quot; shape associated with &quot;love.&quot;)&nbsp; On the obverse is Zeus Ammon. A silphium is on the reverse.&nbsp; The town kept an archaic style of coinage through the classical era.&nbsp; Silphium was harvested to extinction in about 100 AD.&nbsp; It grows nowhere else, though it has relatives.&nbsp; Wild silphium has been reported in Libya.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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