02-14-2012, 10:29 AM
As some may know I'm a Roman coin collector. After looking through all the posts on tombstones and Trajan's column I thought some might like to see how armor is depicted in numismatics.
Here is a coin from Constantius II, minted 350-355 AD. FEL TEMP REPARATIO (return of happy times), soldier spearing a fallen Persian horseman. An excellent depiction of the shield and what appears to be a manica?
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I thought I'd post this one for Roma's helmet and Imperial mantel. Excellent detail and the reverse she-wolf with Remus and Romulus isn't too bad either! Minted in Siscia 330-333 AD.
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and here's one from the Republic 116-115BC. A bit early for most reenactors I know but it is interesting to compare the helmet on this Roma with the previous Roma some 450 years later. The reverse is spectacular, Helmeted horseman galloping left, holding sword and severed Gallic head in left hand. Round shield on back.
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I have many more. If someone wants to see a specific time period and how armor was depicted just say so. I know it's not realistic and the artist took some license but perhaps no more than the statuary images. Anyway...enjoy.
Here is a coin from Constantius II, minted 350-355 AD. FEL TEMP REPARATIO (return of happy times), soldier spearing a fallen Persian horseman. An excellent depiction of the shield and what appears to be a manica?
[attachment=2976]56558q00.jpg[/attachment]
I thought I'd post this one for Roma's helmet and Imperial mantel. Excellent detail and the reverse she-wolf with Remus and Romulus isn't too bad either! Minted in Siscia 330-333 AD.
[attachment=2977]normal_Urbs_Roma_wolf.jpg[/attachment]
and here's one from the Republic 116-115BC. A bit early for most reenactors I know but it is interesting to compare the helmet on this Roma with the previous Roma some 450 years later. The reverse is spectacular, Helmeted horseman galloping left, holding sword and severed Gallic head in left hand. Round shield on back.
[attachment=2978]normal_Sergius_Silius.jpg[/attachment]
I have many more. If someone wants to see a specific time period and how armor was depicted just say so. I know it's not realistic and the artist took some license but perhaps no more than the statuary images. Anyway...enjoy.
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones"
Antony
The good is oft interred with their bones"
Antony
