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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3555644, member: 84744&quot;]Great coin, and what a cool subcollection idea... tracing the various Genio representations through Roman coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m partial to the theory that the snake on Caesar&#039;s famous civil war issue represents the genius of the Roman people and/or Caesar&#039;s genius being trampled by the Caecilii Metelli.&nbsp; Below the coin is the standard representation of the genius of the paterfamilias, from a painting in Pompeii.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945100[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945101[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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