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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3253862, member: 96864&quot;]Man, what a beautiful coin! The (mostly) stand-alone Minerva is much more attractive to my eye than the typical varieties with full legend around perimeter, and appeals to me in the same way that the first US &quot;Seated Liberty&quot; coinage lacking stars around Liberty are interesting to my eye.</p><p><br /></p><p>(From internet)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]854507[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am very curious about the nature of the reverse legend, and hope you can explain it. What is the meaning of the horizontal bar or &quot;I&quot; above the &quot;XIIII&quot;? Is it supposed to represent part of the number? The centering of the horizontal bar over the much more bold first 3 &quot;III&quot; numerals and the weakness of the 4th &quot;I&quot; makes my uneducated eye think that the die-cutters employed an unusual layout for the number 14, and then hastily modified the die with a 5th weak &quot;I&quot; to continue using the die during Domitian&#039;s 15th consulship. I&#039;m probably wrong but such is life in ignorance, I&#039;d be quite interested to know what it means. Thanks for sharing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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