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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7953522, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;ve never really thought about the most common Roman coin reverse. For the Republic, it was probably the Dioscuri, or Victory (or some other deity) in a biga or quadriga. And then in the later Empire, there were all those incredibly common reverses listed on Tesorillo. like falling horsemen and soldiers with standards and Geniuses of the Roman people and so on. Overall, I have no idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only three wolf &amp; twins coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous (Crawford 287/1):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378395[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378396[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Urbs Roma:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378397[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus one she-wolf without twins (P. Satrienus) (Crawford 388/1b):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378399[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>According to some authorities, the Satrienus is not intended to portray &quot;the&quot; wolf. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a photo I took in 2008 of the famous (and possibly Etruscan) statue in Rome, to which the twins were added during the Renaissance:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378401[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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