Roman Centurion Lauersfort Phalera legion silver plated bronze medallions awards

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True to the large life size originals I inspected in person at the Mainz Central Museum 18 years ago while traveling with Peter Connolly.  I was helped
by the then German Curator Ernzt Kunzl.
Epic version Roman Centurion Lauersfort Phalera set.  The red leather harness is made of high grade leather.  It is truly a show piece designed to impress all those that behold it.  Academia Roman Army Studies in Europe show that red was the
favorite
color the Roman army liked to dye their leather in.  In Roman mythology, red was associated with blood and courage and red was the color of the Roman God of War, Mars.  Many Roman soldiers wore red in one way or another such as a tunic, clavi, scarf, belt, facia, focale,
ventralis, sash
and Roman Gladiators were also adorned in red.
These made in America Lauersfort Phalerae are the original large size as the originals and not the cheap Indian cast made small ones.  You are buying the 10 disk that are 100% metal and mounted on a leather harness.  The metal disk are silver plated bronze sheet metal with the Lauersfort Phalera disk mounted on a leather harness by themselves.  These are based on the original life size disk that were found in Germany.
For an extra cost, you can add the following to your ten disk phalera set and red leather harness.  If you want to add the Pompeii snake head armilla, they are each.  If you want to add the lion head torc's, they are 9 each and if you want to add the Corona Aurea (Gold Crowns), they are each.  All prices include the metal riveting and leather mounting of these pieces with extra leather to the existing harness using the same matching red leather.
Besides the military phalera awards of the silver armilla and silver torc's, the Corona Aurea was also a military award.  The
Latin "corona aurea" means in English "gold crowns".  This was awarded to a Roman
soldier
for killing an enemy in single combat and holding the ground to the end of the battle
.  They could be awarded to an individual or to a cohort and even a legion.  You see them on Roman standards sometimes either staked one on top of the other (usually three or so) or you see a single one which would be facing out towards the viewer.  You also sometimes see them wrapped around eagles wings or being held in an eagles peak.  Many are seen on Roman military grave stele along with other awards and decorations of the deceased.