Mules
 | Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Mules.—Vehicles drawn by these animals were amongst the accustomed shews of funeral pomp connected with the internment of womens' remains. It was a custom borrowed by the Romans from eastern nations. The Carpentum Mulare, or covered chariot, with two mules, is a type of consecration. [See Carpentum—Consecrativ—Thensa.] One of these with the epigraph S.P.Q.R. IVLIAE AVGVST., in honour of Livia, appears on a first brass of Tiberius.—A funeral biga of mules appears on large brass of Agrippina, wife of Germanicus; and of Domitilla, wife of Vespasian, with the word MEMORIAE preceeding their respective names.—The same type appears on a silver coin of Marciana, Trajan's sister, with the epigraph CONSECRATIO; and also on a first brass of Faustina senior.—A carpentum, drawn by two mules, appears on a rare first bras of Juia Titi, struck after her death, under the 15th consulate of Domitian, and which by the sacred title of DIVA prefixed to her name, proves that that princess had been placed by her "incestuous uncle" in the rank of divinities.—But we see other instances, as the intelligent author of Lecons de Numsmatique Romaine says, that "the car and pair of mules were not exclusively appropriated to designate consecrations." |
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Mules
Mules are hybrid coins with mis-matched obverses and reverses type. For example, a Roman coin of one emperor with the reverse of another emperor or family member is a hybrid or mule. Coins of this type are generally scarce or rare. Some mules are official mint strikes but most are ancient counterfiets or imitatives.
Dictionary of Roman Coins
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Mules.—Vehicles drawn by these animals were amongst the accustomed shews of funeral pomp connected with the internment of womens' remains. It was a custom borrowed by the Romans from eastern nations. The Carpentum Mulare, or covered chariot, with two mules, is a type of consecration. [See Carpentum—Consecrativ—Thensa.] One of these with the epigraph S.P.Q.R. IVLIAE AVGVST., in honour of Livia, appears on a first brass of Tiberius.—A funeral biga of mules appears on large brass of Agrippina, wife of Germanicus; and of Domitilla, wife of Vespasian, with the word MEMORIAE preceeding their respective names.—The same type appears on a silver coin of Marciana, Trajan's sister, with the epigraph CONSECRATIO; and also on a first brass of Faustina senior.—A carpentum, drawn by two mules, appears on a rare first bras of Juia Titi, struck after her death, under the 15th consulate of Domitian, and which by the sacred title of DIVA prefixed to her name, proves that that princess had been placed by her "incestuous uncle" in the rank of divinities.—But we see other instances, as the intelligent author of Lecons de Numsmatique Romaine says, that "the car and pair of mules were not exclusively appropriated to designate consecrations." |
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