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The symbols on the obverse and reverse of Papia 1 are related, covering the whole range of Roman life and often symbolic of the trade guilds. About 235 symbol pairs are known and almost 70% of them are represented here. However, what some obscure symbols represent is often up to the imagination of the owner or seller, as BMC, RRC, Mionnet, Babelon and others do not always agree. Crawford did not believe that the symbols are linked or connected in any way, but wrote that they are "random", which seems to contradict the facts. The list below lists RRC numbers 1-217. Numbers after that are the Bonnano numbering system then some other additions.
| Papia 1 Sear5 311 | L Papius Denarius Serratus. 79 BC, Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goatskin, symbol behind / Gryphon springing right, symbol below, L PAPI in ex. Syd 773, Cr384/1. | (1 example) | |
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| Papia 1 Crawford Symbol Pair No. | Symbols | Text | Image |
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| 1 | upright amphora / horiz. amphora | Text | Image |
| 2 | amphora / hydria | Text | Image |
| 3 | amphora / amphora stand or tripod | Text | Image |
| 4 | anvil / tongs | Text | Image |
| 5 | aplustre, complex / prow right | Text | Image |
| 6 | triangle / horn. | Text | Image |
| 7 | basket of fruit / bowl of fruit | Text | Image |
| 8 | round basket / square basket | Text | Image |
| 9 | boot with strap / shoe on a last | Text | Image |
| 10 | dolium (beaker) / hydria (two-handled vase) | Text | Image |
| 11 | tall cup / jug | Text | Image |
| 12 | cooking pot / half carcass | Text | Image |
| 13 | cooking pot / triple meat hook | Text | Image |
| 14 | bucranium / bipennis (double axe) | Text | Image |
| 15 | butterfly / wasp | Text | Image |
| 16 | candelabrum / fire-dog | Text | Image |
| 17 | candelabrum / fulcrum | Text | Image |
| 18 | Phrygian cap / sword | Text | Image |
| 19 | hunter's net / two spears | Text | Image |
| 20 | scabellum (wooden rattle) / tambourine | Text | Image |
| 21 | base of a column / top of a Corinthian column | Text | Image |
| 22 | comb / hairpin | Text | Image |
| 23 | double-ended comb/ two joined earrings | Text | Image |
| 24 | furnace / smelting cupel | Text | Image |
| 25 | cornucopiae / bunch of grapes | Text | Image |
| 26 | crab / fish | Text | Image |
| 27 | pot with handle above / squarish pot with two handles. | Text | Image |
| 28 | prawn / octopus. | Text | Image |
| 29 | crocodile / pig | Text | Image |
| 30 | chisel / hammer | Text | Image |
| 31 | crowbar / pickaxe | Text | Image |
| 32 | oil jug / oil lamp | Text | Image |
| 33 | shallow cup / rhyton, forepart of horse at the end | Text | Image |
| 34 | chair seen from the front / bench | Text | Image |
| 35 | trumpet / trumpet mouthpiece | Text | Image |
| 36 | ball / whip and hoop | Text | Image |
| 37 | distaff / two reels | Text | Image |
| 38 | hound, upwards / capricorn right | Text | Image |
| 39 | half a fish / fish right | Text | Image |
| 40 | plasterer's float / trowel | Text | Image |
| 41 | drill / compass | Text | Image |
| 42 | Drill / Plane | Text | Image |
| 43 | egg or shield / eagle standing right | Text | Image |
| 44 | feather / peacock's feather | Text | Image |
| 45 | flail or angular crook / tall basket with strap | Text | Image |
| 46 | two flutes / syrinx (pan-pipes) | Text | Image |
| 47 | human foot / hand holding scalpel | Text | Image |
| 48 | pickaxe / pointed hammer | Text | Image |
| 49 | prize purse / water bottle | Text | Image |
| 50 | Head of nanny-goat right / Head of billy-goat right | Text | Image |
| 51 | goblet / wine-skin | Text | Image |
| 52 | goblet / shoe or wine-skin | Text | Image |
| 53 | chopper / sickle | Text | Image |
| 54 | simpulum upright / knife | Text | Image |
| 55 | hand in caestus / torch | Text | Image |
| 56 | upright hand holding plectrum / harp | Text | Image |
| 57 | hare running right / dog running right | Text | Image |
| 58 | harp / rudder or tall vase | Text | Image |
| 59 | Harpa / Boar's head | Text | Image |
| 60 | crested helmet right / squarish ancilia shield. | Text | Image |
| 61 | apex (priest's cap) / simpulum | Text | Image |
| 62 | hook for raising timber/ pulley block | Text | Image |
| 63 | aspergillum / simpulum | Text | Image |
| 64 | forepart of lion / forepart of bull | Text | Image |
| 65 | ampulla (oil jar) / palm branch | Text | Image |
| 66 | milk jug / cradle | Text | Image |
| 67 | Knife (curved blade)/ block of wood | Text | Image |
| 68 | lantern / snuffer tongs | Text | Image |
| 69 | shepherd's crook / theatre mask | Text | Image |
| 70 | lock / key | Text | Image |
| 71 | lotus flower / poppy | Text | Image |
| 72 | Lyre / Bow and quiver | Text | Image |
| 73 | mace / club with strap | Text | Image |
| 74 | mirror / mirror inscribed SS III | Text | Image |
| 75 | short modius / tall modius | Text | Image |
| 76 | owl / eagle right | Text | Image |
| 77 | cooking pot, round / cooking pan | Text | Image |
| 78 | Pentagram / Set square | Text | Image |
| 79 | boring tool / chisel | Text | Image |
| 80 | hook / tanner's scraper | Text | Image |
| 81 | pump / pail with cup attached | Text | Image |
| 82 | signet-ring / scroll in case | Text | Image |
| 83 | rudder / anchor | Text | Image |
| 84 | sandal right / sandal left | Text | Image |
| 85 | tanner's knife / scraper | Text | Image |
| 86 | sceptre / curved sword in sheath | Text | Image |
| 87 | sceptre/radiate crown | Text | Image |
| 88 | whelk shell or conch / scallop shell | Text | Image |
| 89 | baker's shovel / baker's oven | Text | Image |
| 90 | sickle / two-handled basket | Text | Image |
| 91 | sistrum / bowl of fruit | Text | Image |
| 92 | crossbow bolt / front view of crossbow | Text | Image |
| 93 | spear-head / lower jawbone of boar | Text | Image |
| 94 | spindle / distaff | Text | Image |
| 95 | spur / horse's muzzle | Text | Image |
| 96 | chisel (?) with strap / plumb weight | Text | Image |
| 97 | staff with double hook / astragalus. | Text | Image |
| 98 | standard / coiled serpent | Text | Image |
| 99 | funnel strainer / hydria (2-handled vase) | Text | Image |
| 100 | sword in sheath / carnyx (Sarmatian trumpet) | Text | Image |
| 101 | voting tablet, inscribed PA-PI/cista or voting urn with handle | Text | Image |
| 102 | thyrsus / ivy branch | Text | Image |
| 103 | seed / egg | Text | Image |
| 104 | trident / dolphin | Text | Image |
| 105 | block / butcher's knife | Text | Image |
| 106 | tripod altar / hydria | Text | Image |
| 107 | turnip / carrot | Text | Image |
| 108 | flask / square basket | Text | Image |
| 109 | oil jar / oil lamp | Text | Image |
| 110 | hanging water bottle / flask | Text | Image |
| 111 | oil flask / strigil | Text | Image |
| 112 | writing tablet / stylus | Text | Image |
| 113 | water valve / water pipe | Text | Image |
| 114 | well-head / fountain | Text | Image |
| 115 | wheel with four spokes / wheel with eight spokes | Text | Image |
| 116 | head of lioness or panther right / head of lion right | Text | Image |
| 117 | wreath / lituus | Text | Image |
| 118 | wreath / torque | Text | Image |
| 119 | bridle / chariot | Text | Image |
| 120 | square pennant / spear | Text | Image |
| 121 | pelta (crescent-shaped shield) / axe | Text | Image |
| 122 | coiled serpent / dog | Text | Image |
| 123 | two boots / shoe horn or pipe | Text | Image |
| 124 | pileus / pileus | Text | Image |
| 125 | fasces / axe | Text | Image |
| 126 | upright palm branch / wreath | Text | Image |
| 127 | lyre / lyre-key | Text | Image |
| 128 | chopper / shears | Text | Image |
| 129 | horned helmet/ helmet | Text | Image |
| 130 | poppy / poppy | Text | Image |
| 131 | plumb line / mason's level | Text | Image |
| 132 | bell or cap / snail | Text | Image |
| 133 | duck's head upwaqrds / duck's head right | Text | Image |
| 134 | aplustre, simple / prow left | Text | Image |
| 135 | vine leaf / ivy leaf and berry | Text | Image |
| 136 | murex shell / oval shell | Text | Image |
| 137 | ham / boar's head right | Text | Image |
| 138 | washing posser / feather duster | Text | Image |
| 139 | priest's cap / knife with waved blade | Text | Image |
| 140 | shovel / pile of sand | Text | Image |
| 141 | cola pod / colander | Text | Image |
| 142 | chisel / block of wood | Text | Image |
| 143 | hem hem crown / headdress of Isis | Text | Image |
| 144 | torch / stag's head right | Text | Image |
| 145 | ornate jug / portable altar | Text | Image |
| 146 | eagle, head left / thunderbolt | Text | Image |
| 147 | altar / altar | Text | Image |
| 148 | three hooks / cooking pot | Text | Image |
| 149 | seed-head / poppy-head | Text | Image |
| 150 | harpa / winged petasos | Text | Image |
| 151 | caduceus / wing | Text | Image |
| 152 | stag's head / stag's head | Text | Image |
| 153 | pileus (?) / jug | Text | Image |
| 154 | decorative pin / buckle | Text | Image |
| 155 | tack or nail / scoop | Text | Image |
| 156 | plough / yoke | Text | Image |
| 157 | unlit torch / lit torch | Text | Image |
| 158 | legionary eagle / altar | Text | Image |
| 159 | stylus / hand | Text | Image |
| 160 | arrow upright / club horizontal | Text | Image |
| 161 | plane / saw ? | Text | Image |
| 162 | saw / saw | Text | Image |
| 163 | round calipers / square calipers | Text | Image |
| 164 | dagger with cover / round shield | Text | Image |
| 165 | spear upright / foot in winged sandal | Text | Image |
| 166 | piece of bent wire / stud. | Text | Image |
| 167 | corn-ear / locust | Text | Image |
| 168 | hound's head right / rabbit's head right | Text | Image |
| 169 | upright sausage / sausage | Text | Image |
| 170 | currycomb (for horses) / hand shears | Text | Image |
| 171 | Y-shaped support / ladder | Text | Image |
| 172 | bottle / round object with four arms | Text | Image |
| 173 | sword in sheath / helmet | Text | Image |
| 174 | pan or ladle upwards / tankard | Text | Image |
| 175 | mouse / rooster | Text | Image |
| 176 | whip / lance | Text | Image |
| 177 | tankard / leather bottle | Text | Image |
| 178 | CCXTVI (T inverted) / CCXTVI (T inverted) | Text | Image |
| 179 | bell / yoke | Text | Image |
| 180 | peacock downwards / crowned peacock right | Text | Image |
| 181 | axe / plane | Text | Image |
| 182 | star / crescent | Text | Image |
| 183 | crook / sickle (hand scythe) | Text | Image |
| 184 | bucket / pickaxe | Text | Image |
| 185 | spade handle / pitchfork | Text | Image |
| 186 | sword / serrated hunting sword | Text | Image |
| 187 | bow / arrow | Text | Image |
| 188 | serpent downwards / frog right | Text | Image |
| 189 | spearhead / elephant's head | Text | Image |
| 190 | acorn on branch / pig | Text | Image |
| 191 | ram's head downwards / one-handled jug | Text | Image |
| 192 | large animal's hoof / small animal's hoof | Text | Image |
| 193 | horse's head right / ass's head right | Text | Image |
| 194 | hen's head right / cock's head right | Text | Image |
| 195 | brightly burning torch / thyrsus (?) | Text | Image |
| 196 | mask of Pan / mask of Silenus | Text | Image |
| 197 | pallet knife / bucket | Text | Image |
| 198 | tall altar / basket | Text | Image |
| 199 | food cover / heating stone with handle | Text | Image |
| 200 | amphora with two handles and base / oil jar | Text | Image |
| 201 | simpulum / jug with radiate top | Text | Image |
| 202 | candelabrum / oil lamp | Text | Image |
| 203 | piercer or hairpin/ tweezers | Text | Image |
| 204 | compass / drill | Text | Image |
| 205 | tongs / hammer | Text | Image |
| 206 | key / lock barrel | Text | Image |
| 207 | lock / key | Text | Image |
| 208 | spatula / engraver | Text | Image |
| 209 | basket of fruit / two-pronged hoe | Text | Image |
| 210 | boot / Mask right | Text | Image |
| 211 | Doric column capital / Ionic column capital | Text | Image |
| 212 | awl / animal's leg | Text | Image |
| 213 | helmet right with long visor / petatos. | Text | Image |
| 214 | silphium plant / two crossed corn-ears | Text | Image |
| 215 | basket? / pump? | Text | Image |
| 216 | crested helmet right / Macedonian shield | Text | Image |
| 217 | bunch of grapes / leaves on a stem | Text | Image |
| 218 | candelabrum / oil jar | Text | Image |
| 219 | goblet / oil lamp | Text | Image |
| 220 | dolphin-entwined anchor / hippocamp | Text | Image |
| 221 | radiate crown / shield and spearhead | Text | Image |
| 222 | kantharos / kantharos | Text | Image |
| 224 | key / jug right | Text | Image |
| 225 | thyrsos with wreath / human ear | Text | Image |
| 226 | shoe angled slightly downwards / sandal right | Text | Image |
| 227 | branch upwards / mask facing | Text | Image |
| 228 | bucket with handles / round pot with handle | Text | Image |
| 229 | bagpipes? / shoe right | Text | Image |
| 230 | sceptre / double-headed rattle (?) | Text | Image |
| 231 | oil jar / bowl lid with handle | Text | Image |
| 232 | clothes hook / shield | Text | Image |
| 233 | Deleted (misdescribed 203) | -- | -- |
| 234 | Deleted (misdescribed 108) | -- | -- |
| 235 | Deleted (misdescribed 6) | -- | -- |
| 236 | cola pod / lituus (ANCIENT FAKE) | Text | Image |
| 237 | bow / large arrow head | Text | Image |
| 238 | helmet / elephant's head right | Text | Image |
| Hersh 3471 | part of horse's bridle / two-wheeled chariot. | Text | Image |
| Papia 2 Sear5 461 | L. Papius. 45 B.C. AR Denarius. Head of Juno Sospita right / Wolf right, placing stick on fire; on r., eagle fanning flames; in exergue, L. PAPIVS; above, CELSVS III VIR. Syd 964, Cr472/1. | (5 examples) | ||
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| Papia 3 Sear5 462 | L. Papius Celsus. 45 BC. AR Denarius. Laureate head of Triumphus right, trophy behind / She-wolf right lighting fire, eagle standing left fanning the flames. Cr472/2, Syd 965. | (3 examples) | ||
| Papia 4 | L. Papius Celsus, AR Quinarius 45, 1.45 g. Bust of winged Victory right / L·PAPIVS – [CELSVS], Girl standing right, feeding upright serpent. Babelon Papia 4; RSC 4; Syd. 966; Sear Imperators 84; Crawford 472/3. | Text | Image | |
| Papia 5 | L. Papius Celsus, AR Sestertius 45, 0.83 g. [CELSVS] Head of Mercury right, caduceus behind / Lyre. Babelon Papia 5; RSC 5; Syd. 967. Sear Imperators 85. Crawford 472/4b. | Text | Image | |
| The L Papius Database at Bonanno Coins | ||||
