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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2398005, member: 57495&quot;]I&#039;m a little annoyed I don&#039;t have a Fonteius galley denarius yet, but I&#039;ll share this picture of an actual ship&#039;s prow instead.&nbsp; It was taken during a visit to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm six years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]493561[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The museum houses the entire salvaged remains of the 17th century warship <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)" rel="nofollow">Vasa</a></i>, which sank in 1628.&nbsp; I learned belatedly - today, actually - that the wooden sculptures you can see in the picture arrayed along the beakhead are that of twenty Roman emperors, from Tiberius to Septimius Severus.&nbsp; Augustus is missing; I haven&#039;t read a definitive explanation of why that is, but one article suggests that it was because the Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, thought himself Augustus reborn.&nbsp; His first name is an almost-anagram of Augustus?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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