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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3732348, member: 72790&quot;]I just noticed something on the Legionary denarius you posted. I have been collecting ancients for decades and own one of these myself, a lot more worn than yours. The magnification of your coin showed me something I had never noticed before, the presence on the galley of what appears to be the Roman &quot;Corvus&quot; raven or crow, a&nbsp; bridge like device for enabling marines to quickly board an opposing vessel. I know these were developed by the Romans early in the First Punic War but I never heard of their use afterwards and always wondered if their use in that war was a unique one and done or that Roman warships continued to use them in later wars. They did tend to upset the trim of a vessel. Your coin is so well struck and unworn that it seems to show a corvus attached to the deck near the bow. It&#039;s possible that the mint was unaware of their continued use at the time of Actium or added one out of a literary convention rather than actual naval use ca. First Century BC. Anyway, thanks for the posting of that coin. Accurate or not, it is impressive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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