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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4548979, member: 99456"][ATTACH=full]1126078[/ATTACH]There was <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-rare-domitian-no-its-not-a-minerva.333755/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-rare-domitian-no-its-not-a-minerva.333755/">a post last year</a> on this type of anchor and dolphin from Domitian by [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] that included a reference to an interesting <a href="https://hazeltoncoll.com/article.php/the-commemorative-issue-of-81-part-2-domitian-denarius-ric-2-festina-lente/chwxNRy89s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hazeltoncoll.com/article.php/the-commemorative-issue-of-81-part-2-domitian-denarius-ric-2-festina-lente/chwxNRy89s" rel="nofollow">blog</a> (Hazelton Collection) on related, and more rare, coins of Domitian. While my coin is not a Flavian rarity (C2 in RIC II), is a type referenced by Domitian. It is from Titus in the year that the Colosseum opened, AD 80, that connects ancient Rome and the modern world.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of this coin is a visual reference to the adage and oxymoron, "<i>festina lente</i>" or "make haste slowly". For centuries, publishers have reused this symbol, which, apparently, is just as applicable to making good books as it is to a successful Roman military and government.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126032[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4"><b>Titus</b>, AD 79-81, AR denarius, Rome, AD 80 (1-Jan to 30-Jun 80)</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv:</b> IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, laureate head of Titus right</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev: </b>TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, dolphin coiled around anchor</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref:</b> <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).tit.112" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).tit.112" rel="nofollow">RIC 112</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Note:</b> a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-a-stunner-therefore-not-one-but-two-new-domitians.359596/#post-4477713" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-a-stunner-therefore-not-one-but-two-new-domitians.359596/#post-4477713">much prettier version</a> of this coin from [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] </font></p><p><br /></p><p>This symbol of "dolphin coiled around anchor", representing the adage can be found in various forms on many books:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126050[/ATTACH]from <a href="https://archive.org/details/gooddaysworkinpu0000demo/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/gooddaysworkinpu0000demo/page/n5/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Doubleday</a> 20th Century</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126051[/ATTACH]from Dent in the <a href="https://archive.org/details/thewealthofnatio00smituoft/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/thewealthofnatio00smituoft/page/n5/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Everyman series</a>, 20th Century</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126052[/ATTACH]from <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.5454/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.5454/page/n3/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Pickering,</a> 19th Century</p><p><a href="https://manutiusinmanchester.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://manutiusinmanchester.wordpress.com/about/" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]1126055[/ATTACH]</a>The oldest, a printers mark from <a href="https://archive.org/details/inpraiseofaldusm00flet/page/26/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/inpraiseofaldusm00flet/page/26/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Aldus Manutius</a>, AD 1449-1515, Venetian publisher during the Renaissance. Erasmus, <a href="http://www.adamghooks.net/2011/03/festina-lente.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.adamghooks.net/2011/03/festina-lente.html" rel="nofollow">writes of Aldus, his publisher</a>: "Aldus, making haste slowly, has acquired as much gold as he has reputation, and richly deserves both." In his <a href="https://jvpoll.home.xs4all.nl/back/Web/erasweb11.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://jvpoll.home.xs4all.nl/back/Web/erasweb11.htm" rel="nofollow">long essay</a> on "<i>Festina lente</i>", Erasmus writes of the links to Emperors Augustus and Titus.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1126061[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><i>"Augustus was so greatly delighted with this saying — as Aulus Gellius relates in the <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/10*.html#11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/10*.html#11" rel="nofollow">eleventh chapter of the tenth book </a>of his Attic Nights (whom Macrobius follows in the <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/6*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/6*.html" rel="nofollow">sixth book</a> of his Saturnalia) — that he not only used it very often in his daily conversation, but also frequently inserted it into the language of his official letters, advising by these two words that his ministers in carrying out their duties should employ both the <b>dispatch of efficient business, and the slowness of careful reflection</b>."</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>- <a href="http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm" rel="nofollow">Erasmus Adagia II.1.1 (translated in English)</a></i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">"From the ancient coins minted by Titus Vespasian we can easily gather that this same proverb pleased him, too. Aldus Manutius showed me a specimen, a silver piece of old and clearly Roman workmanship, which he said was sent to him as a gift by the Venetian nobleman Pietro Bembo, who honored the youthful Aldus as an example of the foremost students and diligent investigators of literary antiquities in his time."</font></p><p><font size="4"><i>- <a href="http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm" rel="nofollow">Erasmus Adagia II.1.8 (translated in English)</a></i></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>This coin is a visual reminder of advice from the first emperor, a marker from the opening of the Colosseum, an inspiration to book publishers - and many others that I have omitted, and a 3g token of the long lasting influence of the Roman empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, comment, correction and additional references are appreciated. <b>Post your coins of dolphins with anchors, coins of Titus, or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4548979, member: 99456"][ATTACH=full]1126078[/ATTACH]There was [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-rare-domitian-no-its-not-a-minerva.333755/']a post last year[/URL] on this type of anchor and dolphin from Domitian by [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] that included a reference to an interesting [URL='https://hazeltoncoll.com/article.php/the-commemorative-issue-of-81-part-2-domitian-denarius-ric-2-festina-lente/chwxNRy89s']blog[/URL] (Hazelton Collection) on related, and more rare, coins of Domitian. While my coin is not a Flavian rarity (C2 in RIC II), is a type referenced by Domitian. It is from Titus in the year that the Colosseum opened, AD 80, that connects ancient Rome and the modern world. The reverse of this coin is a visual reference to the adage and oxymoron, "[I]festina lente[/I]" or "make haste slowly". For centuries, publishers have reused this symbol, which, apparently, is just as applicable to making good books as it is to a successful Roman military and government. [ATTACH=full]1126032[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4][B]Titus[/B], AD 79-81, AR denarius, Rome, AD 80 (1-Jan to 30-Jun 80) [B]Obv:[/B] IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, laureate head of Titus right [B]Rev: [/B]TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, dolphin coiled around anchor [B]Ref:[/B] [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).tit.112']RIC 112[/URL] [B]Note:[/B] a [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-a-stunner-therefore-not-one-but-two-new-domitians.359596/#post-4477713']much prettier version[/URL] of this coin from [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] [/SIZE] This symbol of "dolphin coiled around anchor", representing the adage can be found in various forms on many books: [ATTACH=full]1126050[/ATTACH]from [URL='https://archive.org/details/gooddaysworkinpu0000demo/page/n5/mode/2up']Doubleday[/URL] 20th Century [ATTACH=full]1126051[/ATTACH]from Dent in the [URL='https://archive.org/details/thewealthofnatio00smituoft/page/n5/mode/2up']Everyman series[/URL], 20th Century [ATTACH=full]1126052[/ATTACH]from [URL='https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.5454/page/n3/mode/2up']Pickering,[/URL] 19th Century [URL='https://manutiusinmanchester.wordpress.com/about/'][ATTACH=full]1126055[/ATTACH][/URL]The oldest, a printers mark from [URL='https://archive.org/details/inpraiseofaldusm00flet/page/26/mode/2up']Aldus Manutius[/URL], AD 1449-1515, Venetian publisher during the Renaissance. Erasmus, [URL='http://www.adamghooks.net/2011/03/festina-lente.html']writes of Aldus, his publisher[/URL]: "Aldus, making haste slowly, has acquired as much gold as he has reputation, and richly deserves both." In his [URL='https://jvpoll.home.xs4all.nl/back/Web/erasweb11.htm']long essay[/URL] on "[I]Festina lente[/I]", Erasmus writes of the links to Emperors Augustus and Titus. [INDENT][ATTACH=full]1126061[/ATTACH][/INDENT] [INDENT][SIZE=4][I]"Augustus was so greatly delighted with this saying — as Aulus Gellius relates in the [URL='https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/10*.html#11']eleventh chapter of the tenth book [/URL]of his Attic Nights (whom Macrobius follows in the [URL='https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/6*.html']sixth book[/URL] of his Saturnalia) — that he not only used it very often in his daily conversation, but also frequently inserted it into the language of his official letters, advising by these two words that his ministers in carrying out their duties should employ both the [B]dispatch of efficient business, and the slowness of careful reflection[/B]."[/I] [I]- [URL='http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm']Erasmus Adagia II.1.1 (translated in English)[/URL][/I] "From the ancient coins minted by Titus Vespasian we can easily gather that this same proverb pleased him, too. Aldus Manutius showed me a specimen, a silver piece of old and clearly Roman workmanship, which he said was sent to him as a gift by the Venetian nobleman Pietro Bembo, who honored the youthful Aldus as an example of the foremost students and diligent investigators of literary antiquities in his time." [I]- [URL='http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/FLtrans.htm']Erasmus Adagia II.1.8 (translated in English)[/URL][/I][/SIZE][/INDENT] This coin is a visual reminder of advice from the first emperor, a marker from the opening of the Colosseum, an inspiration to book publishers - and many others that I have omitted, and a 3g token of the long lasting influence of the Roman empire. As always, comment, correction and additional references are appreciated. [B]Post your coins of dolphins with anchors, coins of Titus, or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.[/B][/QUOTE]
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