Yes. Been to that distillery a few times. Regretfully, a dry county except for payday (once a month?), so you cannot even buy the elixir at the distillery. I lived about 20 miles away, and my county went WET the year I moved there!
Well, I'm sending this post right now from Jackson. Victor and I live about 150 miles apart. One day I'm going to get him down to my university to talk to students about the coins of Constantine. Just got to find a time when I'm teaching the right class.
Our Tennessee clan is from the Dresden and Martin areas. Been a while since I was there, but I stay in touch with family still living there.
Sorry to leave off rhapsodizing about Tennessee, but I had a further question about this coin for @Victor_Clark or anyone else who might have insight. I'm trying to understand how the reverse imagery works. Does the "PR" in fields make this coin, then, in essence a votive coin, like the "VOT PR" type? Here's what I've written. Please confirm or correct if you can: ROMAE AETERNAE; “To Eternal Rome”; Roma seated right, shield in lap inscribed XV; two letters P and R appear in fields left and right of Roma. XV means “15” and PR stands for the “Populi Romani”; the XV is a reference to Constantine’s quindecennalia, or fifteenth year with imperial power, which was in 320 A.D. Perhaps the reverse imagery means that Constantine is making vows to continue serving the Roman people–vows occasioned by his fifteenth year of imperial power (either as Caesar or Augustus).
