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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7658751, member: 85693"]Thank you! This has been driving me crazy trying to figure it out - I got stuck on this incorrect Aeneas interpretation and it brought me to a dead end. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found an interesting blog (a CT member?) with some more information:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Type 06: Eros with Upright Torch</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz1i8m5VB4w/WPaMJLOU7UI/AAAAAAAABgo/KO9_3EPsF5o94hlOv9JlxWZ2Vb8Nd3mbgCLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz1i8m5VB4w/WPaMJLOU7UI/AAAAAAAABgo/KO9_3EPsF5o94hlOv9JlxWZ2Vb8Nd3mbgCLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B1.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz1i8m5VB4w/WPaMJLOU7UI/AAAAAAAABgo/KO9_3EPsF5o94hlOv9JlxWZ2Vb8Nd3mbgCLcB/s400/CORDUBA%2B1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a well-known coin from Corduba in Spain, a quadrans struck in the name of a certain Cnaeus Julius (ca. 50 B.C.?), with Venus on the obverse and a figure of Cupid with upright torch and cornucopiae on the reverse. Note how Cupid is portrayed here as a feisty teenager, rather than as the chubby cherub often encountered on later provincial coinage.</p><p><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HI19w8dnktg/WPaMVzaSxAI/AAAAAAAABgs/ZgpIiZpZ3kc7xuM0OQYgyEJjfORuCiHpACLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B2.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HI19w8dnktg/WPaMVzaSxAI/AAAAAAAABgs/ZgpIiZpZ3kc7xuM0OQYgyEJjfORuCiHpACLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B2.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HI19w8dnktg/WPaMVzaSxAI/AAAAAAAABgs/ZgpIiZpZ3kc7xuM0OQYgyEJjfORuCiHpACLcB/s400/CORDUBA%2B2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are often of naïve style and in poor condition (those illustrated here are superior specimens, also heavier in weight than average), and are not part of this study because, like the Roman Republican denarii with Cupid motifs, they were issued before the era of Roman provincial coinage that we are concerned with. The Corduban coins circulated locally at the other end of the Roman world and will scarcely have influenced later provincial issues in the Balkans or Asia Minor. The types refer to Venus, patroness of the Julii (and so, indirectly, to Julius Caesar). For a dramatic mosaic of Eros (with Psyche) from Corduba, see <a href="http://eroscoin.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/type-54-eros-embracing-psyche.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eroscoin.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/type-54-eros-embracing-psyche.html" rel="nofollow">Type 54</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://eroscoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/type-06-eros-with-upright-torch.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eroscoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/type-06-eros-with-upright-torch.html" rel="nofollow">http://eroscoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/type-06-eros-with-upright-torch.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What a great Forum. Thanks again, [USER=104741]@Ignoramus Maximus[/USER] - despite your handle, you're no ignoramus! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7658751, member: 85693"]Thank you! This has been driving me crazy trying to figure it out - I got stuck on this incorrect Aeneas interpretation and it brought me to a dead end. I found an interesting blog (a CT member?) with some more information: [SIZE=4][B]Type 06: Eros with Upright Torch[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz1i8m5VB4w/WPaMJLOU7UI/AAAAAAAABgo/KO9_3EPsF5o94hlOv9JlxWZ2Vb8Nd3mbgCLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B1.jpg'][IMG]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uz1i8m5VB4w/WPaMJLOU7UI/AAAAAAAABgo/KO9_3EPsF5o94hlOv9JlxWZ2Vb8Nd3mbgCLcB/s400/CORDUBA%2B1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] There is a well-known coin from Corduba in Spain, a quadrans struck in the name of a certain Cnaeus Julius (ca. 50 B.C.?), with Venus on the obverse and a figure of Cupid with upright torch and cornucopiae on the reverse. Note how Cupid is portrayed here as a feisty teenager, rather than as the chubby cherub often encountered on later provincial coinage. [URL='https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HI19w8dnktg/WPaMVzaSxAI/AAAAAAAABgs/ZgpIiZpZ3kc7xuM0OQYgyEJjfORuCiHpACLcB/s1600/CORDUBA%2B2.jpg'][IMG]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HI19w8dnktg/WPaMVzaSxAI/AAAAAAAABgs/ZgpIiZpZ3kc7xuM0OQYgyEJjfORuCiHpACLcB/s400/CORDUBA%2B2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] These coins are often of naïve style and in poor condition (those illustrated here are superior specimens, also heavier in weight than average), and are not part of this study because, like the Roman Republican denarii with Cupid motifs, they were issued before the era of Roman provincial coinage that we are concerned with. The Corduban coins circulated locally at the other end of the Roman world and will scarcely have influenced later provincial issues in the Balkans or Asia Minor. The types refer to Venus, patroness of the Julii (and so, indirectly, to Julius Caesar). For a dramatic mosaic of Eros (with Psyche) from Corduba, see [URL='http://eroscoin.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/type-54-eros-embracing-psyche.html']Type 54[/URL]. [URL]http://eroscoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/type-06-eros-with-upright-torch.html[/URL] What a great Forum. Thanks again, [USER=104741]@Ignoramus Maximus[/USER] - despite your handle, you're no ignoramus! :)[/QUOTE]
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