Roman legion standard silver phalera disk white brass signifer signum phalera

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You are buying one silver plated bronze disk only for this price.  There is a bolt on the back for mounting to a pole.  You can buy all of the parts top build your own or I could build one for you.  I can also make these disk in cold cast resin materials for half the price each.  Normally, I cannot afford to just make these and hold them in stock but currently, I do have several in stock.  These take time to make and are expensive to produce and none are kept in stock.  If you have an idea for a Roman Passion play using Roman standards or if you want a high caliber Roman standard for yourself or Roman reenactment groups, I will let you make payments.  What you are buying here is ... just one ... of my custom made silvered white brass Roman phalera disk as seen on Roman monuments throughout Europe.  This Roman legion phalera standard disk is six inches across size and done in high relief art work that was copied from those I have seen in person in Rome.  In the city of Rome itself, I took over 400 35mm pictures in a two week period many moo0ns ago.  It done in a rich silvered solid white brass material.  Most disk like this being used by Museums and Roman reenactors seen around the world use an iron disk.  Authentic Roman standard parts that have been found show that they were always made of high value metals and not of iron.  My disk will never rust and will stay bright and shiny always with only the occasional buffing.  A bolt of the same material is brazed onto the back to mount onto a pole.  To make it easy, I tread it by hand but as treads were not known back then, I can leave it unthreaded and you can run it through a pole, put in a handmade washer behind it and then hammer it flat with ball ping hammer to hold it onto the pole.  As these are expensive for me to even make, I do not stock them usually.  If you want one of or more of them, you will need to make your purchase now and I will start work on them afterwards.  This can take up to one month to do.  Not to worry however as you are protected and covered for up to four months with your PayPal purchase of this disk, so I can't not just do it as you can pull your funds back from this purchase within that four month time period.
This type of standard was carried by a Roman signifier and was called a signum or standard.  All legionary cohort standards were ornamented by phalera such as these.  The number of disk on a particular standard is believed to have signified which century the standard belonged too.  Three disk meant this standard belong to the third century of the cohort etc.  The pictured standard seen here was done for ....
Cohort three of Legion Ten Fretensis which took part in the siege of Jerusalem and Masada and garrisoned Jerusalem for nearly 200 years.  The bull here is done in gold wire embroidery and was a symbol of all Augustan legions born or commissioned by Octavian after the civil wars with Mark Antony.
It is also a possibility that each disk or phalera on a Roman standard symbolized a battle honor.  Similar to how ribbons can be attached and hang down from some modern day flag etc. We already know that phalera were awarded to individual Romans and it is also accepted that ornamentation seen on most Roman standards are military honors as well.  Thus it is indeed possible that these disk could have been given as awards to a particular century or cohort.  Others will argue that six phalerae are usually the maximum number shown on a signum so this has to mean they represent centuries.  However, the late second century AD stelae of Aurelius Alexandrus appears to show seven phalerae on each of the signa pictured  The real facts are that we will never know with 100% certainty what the disk on Roman standards were for so we can only take an educated guess.
Each disc could have been a battle honor
I also custom make Roman standards like this one.
For a historical reference, you can check out this web site
www.legionten.org
.  For those who are interested in joining a Roman Legion organization go to
www.legionten.org
or email me about joining this Legion at
niximperial(at)aol.com
.  Thanks.
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