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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 5403768, member: 19615&quot;]I&#039;ll risk the wrath of Portunus (god of shipping) and post a coin I haven&#039;t actually received yet. This is Crawford 457/1, quite a scarce denarius struck in the Sicilian port of Lilybaeum on behalf of Caesar by the Sicilian proconsul Aulus Allienus. It was produced late in 47 BC, part of Caesar&#039;s preparation for the invasion of the Pompeian haven in Africa. The obverse depicts Venus (ho hum); the reverse is the only appearance on Roman coins of Trinacrus, a son of Poseidon and the eponymous deity of Sicily, which was sometimes known as Trinacria. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://pro.coinarchives.com/a4016994e3dfd45fe31ac1f859a84d75/img/artcoinsroma/e87/image00437.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Phil Davis[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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