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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 2065518, member: 4298&quot;]Here are mine, a big as to start with <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0010-020np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Republic, As </b>minted in Rome, circa 211-206 BC</p><p>No legend, head of janus</p><p>Prow of galley right, ROMA at exergue, I above galley</p><p>37.22 gr</p><p>Ref RCV # 627</p><p><br /></p><p>A monneyer&#039;s as :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0010-060np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> D. Junius L.F. Silanus, As</b> minted in Rome, 91 BC</p><p>No legend, Head of Janus</p><p>D SILANVS L F, Prow of galley right</p><p>12.08 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV # 738</p><p><br /></p><p>The following comment from : <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/historia.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/historia.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/historia.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Decimus Junius Silanus was the son of M. Junius Silanus, who commanded the army that was defeated by the Germanic Cimbri in Transalpine Gaul.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Decimus was the stepfather of Marcus Brutus, the murderer of Caesar, having married his mother Servilia. He was elected consul in 63 for the following year ; and in consequence of his being consul designatus, he was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. He was consul 62, with L. Licinius Morena, along with whom he proposed the Lex Licinia Julia&quot;.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Same as TIF&#039;s, featuring Pompey the great :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0020-020np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Sextus Pompey, As</b> struck in Sicily c.43-36 BC</p><p>Head of Janus with features of Pompey the Great, MAGN above</p><p>Prow of galley right, PIVS IMP in field</p><p>16.57 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 336, RCV #1394, Cohen #16</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And not a Janus so to speak, but greatly inspired by them, a Dupndius from Arausio (Orange, France nowadays) :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0030-405.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b> Octavian &amp; Agrippa, AE Dupondius </b> Arausio mint (Orange), 30-29 BC (Colonia Firma Julia Secundanorum Arausio)</p><p>IMP DIVI F (IMPerator DIVI Filii), bare heads of Augustus (right) and Agrippa (left), back to back</p><p>Prow of galley right, ram&#039;s head (?) enclosed in a medaillion above</p><p>17.61 gr - 28 mm.</p><p>Ref : RPC # 533</p><p><i>Ex. CNG e-auction #181/28, from the Patrick Villemur collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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