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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3405019, member: 99456"][USER=41036]@arizonarobin[/USER], a very attractive Fausta with unusual artistry. I'll share two coins that with detail and style that I find interesting. The first for it's detail, the reverse on this Dea Caelestis also called Juno Caelestis and Caelestis - the Romanized version of Tanit and a visual symbol of the city of Carthage.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141305[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Obv</b>: bust of Caracalla, laureate, draped right. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG</p><p><b>Rev</b>: Dea Caelestis, holding thunderbolt in right hand and tall scepter in left, riding a lion leaping right, over waters gushing from a pile of rocks, left. INDVLGENTIA AVGG. INCARTH in exergue.</p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1141321[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Note: </b>Unfortunately this coin was determined by NGC to be a deceptive fake and the unscrupulous seller did not honor his guarantee of authenticity. Updating this post to ensure that others are not similarly deceived. In it's place, I will add a less detailed and more genuine version of this reverse from Septimius Severus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141322[/ATTACH] </p><p>The reverse inscription indicates that a favor (Indulgence of the Augusti) was granted to the city of Carthage by the Augusti. The exact nature of the favor is the subject of multiple theories:</p><p>- the removal of tax on the aqueduct in Carthage</p><p>- the emperor’s generous distribution of olive oil</p><p>- a decision to grant Carthage Pythian games</p><p>- a grant of <i>ius Italicum</i> (Italian law) to the city of Carthage</p><p><br /></p><p>The second, for its reverse style, which I find an attractive example of the school of "squiggles & blobs" - perhaps a similar thought to [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] on diversity and beauty:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]904199[/ATTACH]</p><p>bringing to mind abstract sculptures like this Henry Moore:</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg/512px-Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><font size="2"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg" rel="nofollow">Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Henry Moore 2004 SMC</a></font></p><p><font size="2">The original uploader was SeanMack at English Wikipedia. [CC BY-SA 3.0 (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a>)], via Wikimedia Commons</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3405019, member: 99456"][USER=41036]@arizonarobin[/USER], a very attractive Fausta with unusual artistry. I'll share two coins that with detail and style that I find interesting. The first for it's detail, the reverse on this Dea Caelestis also called Juno Caelestis and Caelestis - the Romanized version of Tanit and a visual symbol of the city of Carthage. [ATTACH=full]1141305[/ATTACH] [B]Obv[/B]: bust of Caracalla, laureate, draped right. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG [B]Rev[/B]: Dea Caelestis, holding thunderbolt in right hand and tall scepter in left, riding a lion leaping right, over waters gushing from a pile of rocks, left. INDVLGENTIA AVGG. INCARTH in exergue. [B][ATTACH=full]1141321[/ATTACH] Note: [/B]Unfortunately this coin was determined by NGC to be a deceptive fake and the unscrupulous seller did not honor his guarantee of authenticity. Updating this post to ensure that others are not similarly deceived. In it's place, I will add a less detailed and more genuine version of this reverse from Septimius Severus: [ATTACH=full]1141322[/ATTACH] The reverse inscription indicates that a favor (Indulgence of the Augusti) was granted to the city of Carthage by the Augusti. The exact nature of the favor is the subject of multiple theories: - the removal of tax on the aqueduct in Carthage - the emperor’s generous distribution of olive oil - a decision to grant Carthage Pythian games - a grant of [I]ius Italicum[/I] (Italian law) to the city of Carthage The second, for its reverse style, which I find an attractive example of the school of "squiggles & blobs" - perhaps a similar thought to [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] on diversity and beauty: [ATTACH=full]904199[/ATTACH] bringing to mind abstract sculptures like this Henry Moore: [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg/512px-Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art_Henry_Moore_2004_SMC.jpg']Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Henry Moore 2004 SMC[/URL] The original uploader was SeanMack at English Wikipedia. [CC BY-SA 3.0 ([URL]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/[/URL])], via Wikimedia Commons[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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