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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;expat, post: 24639938, member: 111067&quot;]Continuing my collection of scarce Antoninus Pius reverses, these two arrived this morning. First, a bit of preamble</p><p>Antoninus Pius and the Great sow.</p><p>Often depicted on coins are celebrations of important events and, as this coin alludes to, the legendary founding of Rome. In this case the coin celebrates the 900th year of the founding.</p><p>This from Virgil</p><p>The Aeneid Book VIII</p><p>It was night, and through all the land, deep sleep gripped weary creatures, bird and beast, when Aeneas, the leader, lay down on the river-bank, under the cold arch of the heavens, his heart troubled by war’s sadness, and at last allowed his body to rest.</p><p>Old Tiberinus himself, the god of the place, appeared to him, rising from his lovely stream, among the poplar leaves (fine linen cloaked him in a blue-grey mantle, and shadowy reeds hid his hair), Then he spoke, and with his words removed all cares: ‘O seed of the race of gods, who bring our Trojan city back from the enemy, and guard the eternal fortress, long looked-for on Laurentine soil, and in Latin fields, here is your house, and your house’s gods, for sure (do not desist), don’t fear the threat of war, the gods’ swollen anger has died away. And now, lest you think this sleep’s idle fancy, you’ll find a huge sow lying on the shore, under the oak trees, that has farrowed a litter of thirty young, a white sow, lying on the ground, with white piglets round her teats, That place shall be your city, there’s true rest from your labours. By this in a space of thirty years Ascanius will found the city of Alba.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567819[/ATTACH] </p><p>ANTONINO PIO. Æ. As. TIBERIS. 140-143 AD</p><p>ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P. Laureate head to the right.</p><p>&nbsp; Reverse: TIBERIS. S.C. In exergue: TR. POT. COS III.</p><p>-Tíber reclining to the left and placing his hand on a rudder.</p><p><br /></p><p>8.95g 25mm. Very scarce.</p><p>C-822. RIC. 706 a-S.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567820[/ATTACH] </p><p>Antoninus Pius AE As, RIC 733, Cohen 450, BMC 1624</p><p>143-144 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / IMPERATOR II S-C, Sow facing right under helm-oak, suckling four young, another piglet in front. SC in ex.</p><p>25mm, 10.09gr Scarce</p><p>Thanks for reading and please show your AP&#039;s or Celebration of Rome coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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