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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8316209, member: 110350&quot;]I unfortunately don&#039;t own this coin, but I was just reading about it earlier today at Liv Mariah Yarrow&#039;s blog, and thought it would fit perfectly here. It&#039;s a lottery machine and lottery ball, as control marks on a specimen of the Roscius Fabatus denarius. See <a href="https://livyarrow.org/2021/06/11/more-roman-technology-via-fabatus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://livyarrow.org/2021/06/11/more-roman-technology-via-fabatus/" rel="nofollow">https://livyarrow.org/2021/06/11/more-roman-technology-via-fabatus/</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lotto machine for randomizing ball draws!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-39.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-39.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-39.png?w=523" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=57809|61|805|fcbee6ab5decc1a098af13544f2934c3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=57809|61|805|fcbee6ab5decc1a098af13544f2934c3" rel="nofollow">CNG 64, 805</a>: “L. Roscius Fabatus. 59 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (3.92 gm). Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat’s skin; lottery machine behind / Female standing right feeding serpent; lottery ball behind. Crawford 412/1 (symbols 103); Sydenham 915; Roscia 3. … The symbols on this particular issue of L. Roscius Fabatus depict components of an ancient lottery system. While Crawford misdescribed these symbols as a well and an unknown symbol, their actual identification is possible by comparison with contorniates made hundreds of years later which depict the identical equipment (see, e.g., Alföldi 203). Furthermore, it may be deduced through the comparisons with the contorniates that the lottery system they were parts of related to the determination of the starting positions in a chariot race.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Prof. Yarrow also posts this picture of a contorniate depicting a similar device:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-42.png?w=695" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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