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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2612451, member: 19615&quot;]I actually do know the difference between three and four, lol, but this Spanish issue of C. Annius and L. Fabius Hispaniensis of 82-81 BC, Crawford 366/1a, seems germane in its depiction of a lively, animated team of horses, the lead horse with its head turned back to glance at the driver:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]571772[/ATTACH] </p><p>I suspect that both of these coins and similar ones such as the denarii of C. Naevius Balbus ultimately derive, at least in their general &quot;inspiration&quot;, from much earlier tetradrachms of Syracuse like this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://pro.coinarchives.com/370cf03fced87687e578c36a0ccce287/img/nac/082/image00062.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ps: I&#039;ve had this Annia coin for decades. It&#039;s not bad overall but I wouldn&#039;t buy it now; the weakness of the lead horse and the mostly missing thunderbolt below the bust of Anna Perenna would &quot;kill&quot; it for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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