Roman Republic Bronze As Janus with Galley Prow reverse.

Bronze Republican As, (circa 180B.C.), Maximum Diameter 32.75mm, Weight 34.50g, Die Axis 0^o.

 

Obverse - Laureate Double Head of Janus.

Reverse - Prow right, looks like ROMA in exergue.

 

Janus.

In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of doors, gates, and transitions. Janus represented the middle ground between both concrete and abstract dualities such as life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace, and barbarism/civilization.

 

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