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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4400860, member: 99456"]Congrats on the new coin with provenance.  Here's my highest grade C. Sulpicius Galba denarius (and only one):[ATTACH=full]1106054[/ATTACH]C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba, AR serrate denarius, Rome, 106 BCObv: Jugate and laureate heads of Dei Penates leftRev: Two male figures standing facing one another, each holding a spear and pointing at sow which lies between; L above.  C SVLPICI. C F in exergueSize: 18.5mm, 3.96gRef: Crawford 312/1, RSC Sulpicia 1 <blockquote>"But Cato, in the Origin of the Roman Race instructs us thus: that a sow bore thirty piglets in the place where Lavinium now is, and when Aeneas had decided to establish a city there and was lamenting on account of the sterility of the soil, that in sleep there appeared to him likenesses of household gods encouraging him to persevere in the establishment of the city which he had begun; for, after as many years as were the offspring of that sow, Trojans would move to fertile spots and more fruitful soil and would establish the city of the most famous name in Italy."- <a href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/origogentis.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/origogentis.pdf" rel="nofollow">ORIGO GENTIS ROMANAE Thomas M. Banchich 2004</a></blockquote>[/QUOTE]