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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2079724, member: 19463&quot;]<img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/phlnumgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Many Roman coins commemorated something.&nbsp; The best is certainly the commemorative issued by Brutus on the murder of Julius Caesar.&nbsp; Among the common ones are the Philip Saeculares set on the 1000th anniversery of the founding in 753 BC.&nbsp; Each workshop used a different animal type from species used in the games celebrating the anniversary.&nbsp; Shop III struck for Philip II while IIII for Otacilia Severa.&nbsp; The other four struck for Philip I.&nbsp; Somehow, the cippus version did not get a workshop number.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]386658[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A problem with many Roman reverses is that we have lost the meaning for which the type was issued.&nbsp; They did not have a fixed set of definitive types so it is not always possible to know what led to a coin being issued.&nbsp; Some can be guessed with some accuracy like this quadrans in honor of Caligula repealing the hated 1/2% sales tax. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]386659[/ATTACH] </p><p>...or this Provincial honoring the defeat of Cleopatra and founding of a city for the benefit of veterans who helped with that effort.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]386660[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The same event was commemorated 200 years after the defeat when Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus reissued coins of the type used by the defeated Mark Antony.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]386661[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There must be a million of them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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