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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3199487, member: 57495&quot;]I think the sow and piglet type also strongly alludes to one of Rome&#039;s founding myths.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of this A-Pi as depicts a scene from Virgil&#039;s <i>Aeneid</i>. It refers a prophetic dream of Aeneas, an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. While leading a group of refugees who have fled Troy to Italy, he encounters the river god Tiberinus in a dream, who tells him he should settle his people when he sees a white sow suckling her young under an oak tree. He sees this very omen the next day along the river, at a site that would in future become the city of Rome.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827691[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE As. 11.02g, 28.6mm. Rome mint, AD 140-144. RIC 733; Cohen 450. O: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right. R: IMPERATOR II, sow seated by a river under a oak tree suckling three piglets, with another one in front of her; SC in exergue. </p><p><i>Ex Old Sable Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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