JANUS / WREATH / Panormos, SICILY 200-190 BC. Æ Roman Republic Coin +COA GGcoins

Description

Panormos,  Sicily
Janiform Deity  /  Wreath
Roman Republic /  ( 200 - 190  BC.)
Æ Bronze, Size:
(22.mm,)    Weight: (5.1gm)
Description:
This is a quite Rare AE ancient coin with a well struck
Two Faced
JANUS type bust,
It was struck during a volatile & historic time of the early Roman
Republic
,
and 200 years before Christ...!
Obverse:
Two-faced Laureate head of
Janus
with denomination mark above...
Reverse:
NA/SO
in two lines within
wreath...
Ref; HGC 2, 1690;     CNS 78 (Panormos).
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History of this coin:
Janus
In his Saturnalia, the 5th century philosopher Macrobius tells us that Janus,
the two-faced deity of transitions, beginnings and ends, ruled over Latium during
the golden age and had been the first to mint coins. Therefore, his image featured
on the obverse of the original asses. When Saturn, the god of wealth, agriculture,
and renewal, arrived in Italy, Janus welcomed him and the two deities reigned
together, which is reflected by the reverse showing a prow: “When Janus first
stamped images onto bronze coins, he maintained his reverence to Saturn to such
a degree that, since he had come to Italy by boat, one side of the coin would show
an image of his head, while the other side displayed a ship; in this way he propagated
Saturn’s memory for future generations.”
The two most ancient, foundational deities of Rome’s mythological golden age are thus
referenced on this coin. Following Macrobius, it signifies both the origins of the city and
of minting money, and, with Saturn, its wealth and prosperity. Furthermore, according to
the Roman Republican calendar, the year starts with the month of Janus (“January”) and
more or less ends with the saturnalia, the festivities of Saturn. Obverse and reverse of the
as hence also encompass the whole year – possibly a reference to the durability and
reliability of Roman money. According to Macrobius, this coin became so iconic that it led
to a Latin idiomatic expression similar to the English ‘heads or tails’, which was still in use
by the 5th century...
Poet Ovid, who published the Fasti around 8 AD, the Republican as was still present enough
to be the archetypal bronze coin to ask a god about. Secondly, Ovid’s mentioning of the
worn Republican coin can be read as a sharp political comment: if time had not worn away
the image of Janus (ni vetus ipsa dies extenuasset opus, v. 170), the golden age origins of
Rome would still be visible. Ovid uses the Republican bronze as as an image for the ‘good old days,’
which, as Janus states, have gone by. In the present, that is under the rule of Augustus,
a new wealth, symbolized by gold coins instead of bronze asses, fosters vice and moral decay:
Wealth has increased, and the frantic lust for riches,
So that those who possess the most seek for more.
They seek to spend, compete to acquire what’s spent,
And so their alternating vices are nourished.
Like one whose belly is swollen with dropsy
The more they drink, the thirstier they become.
Wealth is the value now: riches bring honours,
Friendship too: everywhere the poor are hidden.
And you still ask me if gold’s useful in augury,
And why old money is a delight in our hands?
Once men gave bronze (aera), now gold (aurum) grants better omens,
Old-fashioned money, conquered, gives way to the new.
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The Coin:
A very pleasing & quite RARE example of an
Roman Republic era bronze coin
,
it saw much us
e
before it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
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