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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Diego Cuoghi, post: 35066, member: 2124&quot;]Hello,</p><p>I think that the scene comes from the roman mithology, it could be the Jupiter&#039;s shield ( Ancile ) that protects the country from the storms and lightnings (Ovidium, Fasti, book III -&nbsp; <a href="http://www.biblio-net.com/lett_cla/testi/fasti_liber_iii.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.biblio-net.com/lett_cla/testi/fasti_liber_iii.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.biblio-net.com/lett_cla/testi/fasti_liber_iii.htm</a>). The shield fell from the sky at the feet of the roman king Numa Pompilio. The promise of the god was that Rome will be protected until the romans take care of the sacred shield.</p><p>The sentence &quot;OPPORTUNUS ADEST&quot; means something like &quot;It is present in our time of need&quot; (&quot;Il&nbsp; est present à propòs&quot; in french).</p><p><br /></p><p>I found another jeton with the same shield, held by an arm:</p><p><a href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/jeton_bouclier2.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/jeton_bouclier2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/jeton_bouclier2.jpg</a></p><p>In this one we can clearly see that the shield protects from the lightnings coming out from the clouds.</p><p><br /></p><p>Months ago I made a web page about this french &quot;UFO coin&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_7.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_7.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_7.htm</a></p><p>It is part of a big work about alleged UFOs in ancient art, mostly in Italian but with some chapters also in English:</p><p><a href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_eng.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_eng.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_eng.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Diego Cuoghi[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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