WHAT A BEAUTY! NEW COIN ADDED...

A superb new addition... Thorius Balbus famous "bull coin", 105bc...
Just observe how male this bull is!... the quality of the details...
Yep... very happy.

Joannus dixit.


"Thorii Balbi, plebeians.
1. C. thorius balbus, of Lanuvium, is said by Cicero to have lived in such a manner, that there was not a single pleasure, however refined and rare, which he did not enjoy. (De Fin. ii. 20.). The annexed coin of L. Thorius Balbus contains on the obverse the head of Juno Sospita, whose worship was of great antiquity at Lanuvium, with the letters I. S. M. R. (that is, Junonis Sospifae maynae reginae); and on the reverse L. thorivs balbvs, with a bull rush­ing forward. Eckhel (v. p. 324, &c.) thinks that the bull has an allusion to the name of Thorius, which the Romans might regard as the same as the Greek frodpios, impetuous.
2. sp. thorius balbus, tribune of the plebs about b. c. Ill, was a popular speaker, and intro­duced in his tribuneship an agrarian law, of which considerable fragments have been discovered on bronze tablets, and of which an account is given in the Diet, of Ant. s.v. Thoria Lex. (Cic. Brut. 36, de Orat. ii. 70 ; Appian, B. C. i. 27.)"

Source - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities edited by William Smith (1870).