I bought this brass copy /
fake from a friend in
England (I sometimes deliberately buy
fakes which appeal to me).
Before I put it into the
Fakes Gallery here, does anyone know what it is a
fake of ? (Or what on earth the
reverse is supposed to depict It's all a little confused)
32.5 mm, brass
Obv: DIVI
IVLI, bare-headed
bust of Gaius
Julius Caesar right,
lituus behind
headRev: (below) ..VA
(?), a confused scene, possibly with a deity seated right, on the left, holding out
his hand, small person on the right, facing left; what looks like a
lion rampant on the left and - crikey - I don't know - an upside down Xmas tree on the right. (I don't even know which way up this
reverse should be, as no angle seems to show a clear illustration of anything
If you rotate it 90° anticlockwise, it looks like
Herakles swinging the
lion around by the tail..
Any ideas, anyone ?